GEOG-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Via Campesina, Main Source, Anthropocene
22 Dec 2020
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Global movements for defense of land, life territory. Uneven distribution of food with strong focus on profits and the corporate control of food production/manufacturing/distributing companies. Seeds can sow more than profit or neoliberalism like self-determination, cultural values and ties to land: elite class developing cross-boundaries: prestage, transnational connection. "food sovereignty is based on the human right to food, free determination, indigenous rights to territory and the rights of people to produce food for their subsistence and for local and national markets. Food sovereignty defends peasant farming, fishing with traditional fishing families, forests with communities of forest dwellers, steppes with nomadic pastoral families" Capitalist agrifood v. food sovereignty: flows of power. Galapagos is preserved today because of establishment of it as a national park. Introduction: conserving ecosystems in their natural state is possible as long as humans do not interfere with it. Clements is the reason why we often think of nature and in balance and unchanging.
