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Reliance on Oil
Evaluation
Problems -
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
The First
Green Revolution
Australia's
Food Future
Methods of
First Green Revolution
1. Improved overall 'efficiency' of factory farm system
2. Artificial methods; hydro-charged irrigation water, specialising of crops, introduction of chemical fertilisers
bio-piracy = appropriation of indigenous knowledge and plant material by corporations of global north to increase wealth, profit from the biodiversity of the global South and erode genetic
diversity (therefore creating a dependence on patented seeds).
Brazil: Movimento Dos Trabalhadores (MST):
the Seed Heritage People For the Good of Humanity campaign (2003) which
defends farmers rights to seeds and the Bionatur (1997) organic seed-banking initiative
Malawai: Soils, Food and Healthy Communities (SFHC) project in an
effort to increase food availability and child health by
re-educating farmers about organic methods. Also challenged
gender roles
Empower the masses by:
- learn to educate yourself
-see beyond the biases and agendas within the news
-take action for re-education and to put pressure on both governments and corporations.
-“study the rich and powerful, not the poor and powerless”
(p289 George, How The Other Half Dies)
IAASTD examines “existing and emerging agricultural systems, policies, investments and institutional arrangements [which] hinder or facilitate progress towards equitable and sustainable development”
(Ishii-Eiteman p689)
“People have benefited from unevenly from yield gains [with]benefits accrued disproportionately to better resourced groups in society and transnational corporations over the most vulnerable members of society.”
(Ishii-Eiteman p692)
agroecology =study of ecological processes that operate within agricultural production systems, an ecosystem on agricultural land, constantly evaluating
/ putting focus on the relationship between productivity and
resource conservation.
"Spent"
By Jody, Lauren and Rosie
http://playspent.org/
“The world's estimated 854 million chronically food-insecure people are not the only target of this [food sovereignty] revolution; it also takes aim at the challenges of feeding the nine billion people who are projected to share our planet by 2050.” – Steven Suppen Challenges to Food Sovereignty (112)
"Food security is a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy lifestyle"
- Patel, pp. 664
References
"Today's world has all the physical resources and technical skills necessary to feed the present population of the planet or a much larger one"
- Susan George, How the Other Half Die (p. 23)
Alonso-Fradejas, Alberto et al. 'Food Sovereignty: Convergence And Contradictions, Conditions And Challenges'. Third World Quarterly 36.3 (2015): 431-448. Web.
BBC The Future of Food – Part 1, YouTube video, Moonray, UK. <
George, Susan. How The Other Half Dies. Montclair, N.J.: Allanheld, Osmun, 1977. Print.
George, Susan. Whose Crisis, Whose Future?. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010. Print.
Institution of Mechanical Engineers 2015, When will oil run out?, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, viewed 24 May 2015, < http://www.imeche.org/knowledge/themes/energy/energy-supply/fossil-energy/when-will-oil-run-out>.
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002, Green Revolution: Curse or Blessing?, International Food Policy Research Institute, viewed 24 May 2015,<http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ib11.pdf>.
Ishii-Eiteman, Marcia, and Lim Li Ching. 'The IAASTD Report'. Development 51.4 (2008): 570-573. Web.
Msachi, R.; Dakishoni, L.; Kerr, R. B. Soils, food and healthy communities: working towards food sovereignty in Malawi. Journal of Peasant Studies 2009 Vol. 36 No. 3 pp. 700-706
Manning, R 2004, ‘The Oil We Eat; Following the Food Chain Back to Iraq’, Harper’s Magazine, pp. 37-45.
Patel, R 2009, 'Food Sovereignty', Journal of Peasant Studies, 36:3, pp. 663-706
Pfeiffer, D.A 2013, Eating Fossil Fuels, The Wilderness Publications, viewed 24 May 2015, <http://www.gunnarlindgren.com/fuels-hel.PDF>
PlaySpent 2015, Can you make it through the month?, PlaySpent, viewed 3 June 2015, <http://playspent.org/html/>
The Greens, 2013, Our Food Future, The Greens, viewed 24 May 2015,<http://greensmps.org.au/sites/default/files/our_food_future_-_australian_greens.pdf>.