SOSC 1341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Corporate Welfare, Factory System, Neoliberalism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1341
• Professor: Stephan Dobson

Document Summary

Of the world"s food is wasted; richest countries: 222 million tonnes of food thrown away. Global grain reserves running dangerously low; 6th time in 11 year: world eating more than producing. Worst case scenario: total food system to collapse in 30-50 years. 800,000 struggle to get food on the table; northern communities have 8 out of. Approximately of urban area in canada occupy former farmland. Since 1980s; 7400 sq. km of farmland were paved over. State-assistance: 1940-1980s; regulatory measures to assist agriculture. Neoliberal paradigms : 1980s to present; regulation for competition free trade. State assistance period: green revolution: application to farming of: Peasants & small farmers too often forced off the land. Cannot compete with cheap imports; debt; sometimes forcibly moved. Cannot compete with cheap imports ; debt. Desertification & loss of soil fertility; green deserts. Neoliberalist governments not allowing for the unionization of workers. Neoliberalism: remove gov"t food subsidies in south (for loans from.