INTL 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Infant Mortality, Reproductive Rights, Food Security
4 May 2016
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His perspective is engrained in western thinking effects how we treat countries in the global south. People in the movie definitely believe in the anti-malthusian paradigms. Maldistribution of food, not overpopulation is a key problem: indian women say food aid (grain) isn"t getting to them. Debt cycle: during droughts women ask landlords for grain debt bc pay. 40% interest on every rupee borrowed is how they get rich and we become poor . Land reforms (maldistribution of land hunger): lower castes get marginal rocky lands, upper castes show false land titles. Enclosure or loss of commons food insecurity: commons were enclosed for industrial farming/ cattle ranching, houses female villagers resist, arming themselves with fence posts. Small farmers largely excluded from green revolution in india couldn"t compete loss of lands food insecurity. Human cost of misdiagnosis of hunger as merely overpopulation thousands of women and men were sterilized in india by force in the 1970s under the.
