IDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Food Regimes, Hegemony, Market Power
6 Dec 2018
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Lec 08: the political economy of food, hunger, and agrarian change. Malthusian solutions: adoption of modern technologies: machines, seeds, agrochemicals, greater role for agrifood corporations, to solve hunger: Improve efficiency: link farmers into global value chains". Better linkages with buyers and sellers in global markets, need people buying more seeds, buying more machinery, buying more agricultural treatments, need to support agricultural society. It"s not to do too much with scarcity but distribution of food: ways in which power is exercised to control distribution of food. Food regimes: food regime: the rules, institutions, and practices that regulate the production, consumption, and trade of food. The first global food regime: 1850s 1930s, tropical imports from colonies, grains and meat from settler colonies-cheap food for working class, rested upon free trade policies. The corporate food regime: liberalized trade and investment, corporate concentration among agrifood tncs, supermarket revolution.
