R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Grain, Avoidance Speech, Food Policy

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC355
• Professor: John Parkins

Document Summary

Crises relates to how land values have escalated in recent years. Concern of land values because farmers to service mortgages on these large lands. When land values escalate, it"s because there are large corporations that are controlling agricultural production. Distinction between family farms that are incorporated (have shares that are dispersedly held) and those that aren"t. Rules around foreign ownership to limit the large scale corporate operations. A lot of public funding that goes into the support. Relationship between development on agriculture and the negative effects on the environment. Total region 5 (edmonton area) loses a thousand farms over 5 years. Drought in alberta creating more stress on farmers. At least 20 years old: farm crisis is an old crisis, and has been with us for an extended period of time. Global: crises all over the world, like in germany. Unprecedented: deeply rooted and troubling that is affecting farmers worldwide that seem to be a root cause.