GEOG10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Environmental Degradation, Poverty Reduction, World Economy
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Food availability and population - malthus and neo-malthusians. Failures in international humanitarian interventions and development - oda and private transfers (tim costello) Markets - rising food prices 2008; commodity markets. Trade - trade protectionism; negative terms of trade. Climate variation in food production - spatial and temporal. Drought / climate change, war, policy failure Who dies is always a matter of access to food. Who accesses food is usually a matter of marginalization and structural inequality. Tend to occur in poor countries with: Low and fluctuating levels of food production. Climate, war repression, trade, changes in entitlements. Interventions and solutions depend on which argument you believe: abundance argument, control pop growth, increase food production, distribution argument, poverty reduction, more equitable and accountable social, economic, political systems at all scales. To test students" understanding of the key concepts from the course, and their ability to form a critical and evidence-based argument based on these concepts.