GGR329H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Via Campesina, Overnutrition, Food Security

• School: UTSG
• Department: Geography and Planning
• Course: GGR329H1
• Professor: Elsie Lewison

Document Summary

Autonomy of producers to be able to produce the food they want & to be able to make a living producing food. La via campesina came up with this term. Overnutrition correlates with poverty & food insecurity. Has to do w/ access to certain kinds of foods & quality of food. Ratio of net productivity btw the least productive & most productive agriculture in the world. Beginning of 20th century: 1 to 10. End of 20th century: 1 to 500. Rise of industrialization and intensification of farming practices has been very rapid. & uneven in how it"s developed across the world. Breaking down of national borders of trade protection has been uneven in the world.