GGR124H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Compost, Food Security, Labor Rights
2 Apr 2017
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Society has become completely urbanized. - lefebvre, 1970. Answer #1: a dramatic expansion of the global urban population. Answer #2: a worldwide transformation of social, cultural and economic life organized by urbanization. Cheap labour, no access to standard labour rights and health care. 1976: united nations covenant on social, economic and cultural rights so that everyone has the right to be free from hunger: national commitment to food security yet some do not have access. The food system is a complex set of activities and relationships including production, processing, distribution, marketing, retail, consumption and waste. Most of the food we eat comes from a highly sophisticated industrialized system. Convenience stores correlated to a less healthy diet and increased body mass. Foodshare community garden, schools, academies, composting, sunshine: recall lecture 8 mentions.
