Geography 3312A/B Lecture Notes - Janjaweed, World Food Summit, Amartya Sen
1 Dec 2012
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The picture says a lot about the state of world agriculture: women grow 60 80 % of all the world"s food, but own less than 2 % of the world"s lan. Farming is an increasingly feminized activity throughout the south. Although the world is more urban that it ever was, the world"s people still rely on agriculture to provide food for their table. In 2008 the world bank divided the globe into 3 different rural worlds: Agriculture-based countries: agriculture is the most important source of economic growth and the countryside is where poverty is found. Sub-saharan africa is the example transforming countries: agriculture is no longer the most important source of economic growth but the countryside is still where poverty is found. Most of asia and the middle east are the examples. Like modernization theory, the bank sees these 3 worlds as a linear path": agriculture to transforming to urban.
