GEOG10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Chemical Revolution, Fungibility, Urap
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Lecture 14: climate change, culture and hunger in the philippines . Not universal: hunger is unevenly distributed across the world. How does western science and global humanitarian governance understand hunger: hunger is mediated socially by the way that we think and. Respiratory calorimeter in 1894 proved that energy containing food calorie is the basis of global efforts to understand and manage hunger. The calorie was pervasively adopted by the un"s food and agriculture. Emphasizes technocratic and non-political solutions to issues of hunger (focuses on critique on national production rather than issues of distribution) Assumes a universal form of hunger where all food is more-or-less fungible (replaceable by another item) Primary source of subsistence = swidden agriculture rotational form of ag production sections of forest cut down and dried for long periods of time -> burnt to sequester nutrients into soil -> move onto next plots.
