GEOG-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Food Sovereignty, Laissez-Faire, Food Security
22 Dec 2020
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Galapagos will never be pristine, maybe it"s time to just accept the natural process. The past history of efforts has been trying to return/change/preserve/keep things the way things were before humans. But there is an emergence of the idea of. Perhaps this isn"t possible and we should just accept that we can"t do much. It"s too difficult to maintain the processes that have picked up. Humans are part of nature and the negative connotations of "invasive species" need to be removed. Some invasive species can actually be beneficial to farming and to the species tortoises. Tortoises are spreading the seeds of an invasive species. Guava it is complex: this involves people, water, economics, tortoises, etc. A lot of work is being done for farmers and food security on the galapagos. Everything is consumed except for coffee which is the main export boundaries that separate protected and productive areas are nonexistent in reality.
