SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Food Policy, Food Security, Indian Railways
12 Feb 2014
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Chapter 2 changing food systems from top to bottom. Food regimes combine commodity studies with world-systems analysis to identify long periods of stability and change in agri-food systems. Actor-network theory, which tracks human and non-human actants" from below, is increasingly seen as complementary to food regimes theory. Together, the two approaches help to analyze food system change, which is an unusual combination of economic change and social movements. The united nations world food programme (wfp) was founded in 1974 to promote food security though multilateral food aid and focuses on food emergencies. Food sovereignty a political framework developed by la via campesine that focuses on the right of peoples and governments to determine their own agriculture systems, food markets, environments, and modes of production. It is a radical alternative to corporate-led, neo-liberal, industrial agriculture. Hunger was not restricted to the south countries but even the so-called rich countries as incomes grew more unequal.
