SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sustainability, Karl Polanyi, Food Systems
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Throughout the course we identified some of the key strengths and vulnerabilities of the modern food system. It is important to identify causes of these vulnerabilities if we need to imagine a sustainable food system that can overcome them. We need to imagine a food system to overcome its shortcomings and transform itself around its strengths. We may of course, realize that what we identify as strength may actually be causes of these failures. Hunger, obesity, farm crisis, global warming are interrelated symptoms of broader problems and require short, mid and long-term solutions. Effective response requires our ability to see interrelationships among these seemingly unrelated issues and working together. One may ask why i should be concerned about the problems in the food system if they are not affecting me personally. There could be several reasons why as individuals we should be concerned about problems within the food system.
