ES 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Food Security, Crop Diversity, Quinoa
6 Apr 2018
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Can you save the world and the great acceleration. Food security at the individual, household, national, regional and global levels is achieved when all people always have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for their dietary needs and preferences. Two features of capitalism-private property and profit maximization. Private property does not inherently exist in nature. The enclosure movement is when fences were out up to create fields for sheep. From an economist pov the enclosure movement worked, wealth was created. The ownership of land transferred into fewer hands, theoretically this could be good for the land. Economists also argue without it, there would not have been development on the land/agriculture. Things that never used to be commodifiable are now being used for profit, for example water. As water scarcity increase were seeing privatization of water. When access to food is diminished, food security increases.
