IDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Via Campesina, Fallacy, Splenda
2 Apr 2018
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The political economy of food, hunger, and agrarian change. Percentage of undernourished has dropped 30% in the last 25 years. Who are the hungry: mostly located in the global south. That there are too many mouths to feed. The fallacy of malthusian logic: every region produces more than the minimum kcal/capita/day (2300kcal) Food regimes: food regime: the rules, institutions, and practices that regulate the production, consumption, and trade of food. The way power shapes the production, distribution and consumption of food. Emphasises the role that food and agriculture play in the development of. The first global food regime: 1850s to 1930s. Cheap food for working class: rested upon free trade policies. The second global food regime: 1950-1970/90s, flow of food grains from the us to allies, characterised by state intervention of agri-food markets. 1970 food crisis; trade liberalisation in 1990s. The corporate food regime (neoliberal food regime: global hegemon is a transnational corporation, key characteristics:
