GEOG10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Environmental Degradation, Famine Food, Emic And Etic
Document Summary
2015 11% of world"s population chronically malnourished. *** in 2014, more than 1. 9 billion adults worldwide (18+) and more than 600 million were obese. Massive disparities in food consumption + production some lower income minority groups live in food desserts: get oversupply of low cost, low quality, high sugary food -> lower quality of nutrition. What sort of knowledge is being shared and how are people educated? inequality of distribution. Growth rate of food production falls closely in line with global and political instabilities and trends. 2018: 14 countries faced food emergencies (to the point of crisis) Mix of political, economic and environmental problems. Triggered by acute violent conflict (ie. civil war) Worrying trend #2: significant global unevenness in b/w global norths consumption compared to the rest of the world. Brics countries aspire to attain diets that is normal in the west.
