SOC354H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Food Riot, Agribusiness, Global Sourcing
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We see that the movie is focused towards globalization of agriculture. The capitalist is producing roses and it is the largest in the world where they are distributed to markets in europe. Finance, labour, land, local labour, external investors are all coming from different places. Manufacturing moves from first to third world countries to exploit their labour such as india, pakistan, sri. We see that many of the countries in the southern are taken over by the countries of the. Now in the 21st century there is a boom of second green revolution. This is the rise of the increasing food reproduction. The difference: 1960"s production system was introduced as a state initiated program to initiate other countries to produce more food. The second green revolutions initiative is taken by private corporate capital; the goal is to meet the needs and demands of the global market.
