GGR100H1 Lecture Notes - Food Sovereignty, Agribusiness, Via Campesina
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Editor"s note: this piece is one in a series of replies to frances moore lapp "s essay [1] on the food movement today. Amid the joy of local, seasonal ingredients and tides of young people with dirt freshly lodged under their ngernails, it feels unkind to point to the bigger problems within the food system. But it"s worth tempering an optimism of the will with a pessimism of the intellect. Despite the food movement"s gains over the past decade, it"s hard not to feel the latter outweighing the former. For every white house organic garden, there"s an appointee to the us trade representative"s of ce from the pesticide industry. Sasha and malia may be getting good grub, but the global south still gets stuck with chemicals. Harvests remain strong, and people still go hungry. There"s enough produced to feed everyone on a small planet"s diet.
