SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Renewable Resource, Food Policy, Food Sovereignty
6 Dec 2014
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Csoc 808- chapter 20- conceptualizing sustainable food systems o o o. Idea od sustainable food system gaining strength as people begin to realize vase shortcomings of our current unsustainable food system. Existed for a long as humans have been organizing their food. Ranged from simple to elaborate: hunting and gathering o. Still exists in few pockets around the world modern food systems are generally complex and multi layered. Kaufman food system encompasses a chain of activities o o. Begin with production of food then moves on to include processing, distributing, wholesaling, retailing, and consumption, and disposal. Stresses a linear configuration demonstrating thermodynamic problem of converting natural cycles into one way flows to overload environment sinks. Hay defines systems as a group of elements organized such that each element is in some way independent with every other element. Interdependent web production, processing, distributing, consumption, and disposal of food.
