ISS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Plant Breeding, Food Security, Soil Retrogression And Degradation
1 Jul 2016
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Human subsistence systems: the green and blue revolutions. Things/goods become commodities when exchanged in the market. Use value: properties that allow a thing to serve human needs or wants. Exchange value: what (quantity of) other commodities it will exchange for have traded. Universal equivalent: an object that is the measure by which all commodities are compared and exchanged on the market. Commodity: a thing through its qualities satisfies human needs (use-value) and it is then exchanged for something else (exchange value) Mystifies social relations (who made the ikea table) Commodification: the process by which a thing that previously circulated outside monetary exchange is brought into the market. The process where qualitatively distinct things are rendered equivalent and scalable thing through the medium of money. Production for use is systematically displaced by production for exchange. Social consumption and reproduction relies on purchased commodities. The green revolution (technical)- plant breeding and genetics.
