GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Urban Metabolism, Timbits, Food Desert
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Ggra03: lecture 6 - food and the city. Eating is a biological, social, and spatial process. We are dependent not only on rural farms but also on the urban environment. Humans must meet their material needs through the appropriation of nature . Transformation of nature is necessary through human labor. We are directly dependent on a range of rural and urban environments through our need to eat. Hunger and our basic reliance on food for survival directly connects us to an environment to ecosystems and environments outside of us. In 2003, 11. 2% of all us households were food insecure due to a lack of economic resources. Urban hunger is both a natural condition created through complex biogeochemical processes, as well as a social process produced through power relations dictating who eats what and how much, and who goes hungry. Urban hunger is produced socially, economically, and spatially.
