HWS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Food Processing, Economic Rationalism, Dried Fruit
15 Jan 2019
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Community supported agriculture: food co-ops and buying clubs. A community of individuals who pledge to support a farming operation where the risk and benefits are share (b/w grower and consumer) Non-profit structure where people buy from wholesalers or farms (e. g. food connect) Community food systems are (generally) intentional about sustainable processes and outputs. Improve access by all community members to an adequate, affordable, nutritious diet. Create jobs and keep financial capital within communities. Dietary behaviours that reflect concern about individual, environmental and community health. To describe the organization of australia s food supply into primary production, food processing, and retail sectors. To recognize the role of the food system and food supply in meeting the demands of convenience. The growing, raising, cultivation, picking, harvesting, collection or catching of food and includes the following: The transportation or delivery of food on, from or between the premises on which it was grown, raised, cultivated, picked, harvested, collected or caught.
