GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Joel Salatin, International Monetary Fund, Bretton Woods Conference
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Cultural geography 3 lecture 15 (week 10) Today: teaching evaluations, films, finish discussion of food and commodity chains. Ian cook, associate professor of human geography at the university of exeter (u. k. ) Papayas are grown in jamaica and shipped to uk piece reads like a story great example of global commodity change: pickers and packers, the buyer (mina) Some people in the chain don"t have much control because they could potentially lose their job challenging authority agency within structure of corporation. Spatial justice: the study of how the world"s resources are distributed geographically & what can be done to make that distribution fairer. Structure adjustment programs: loans provided by the international monetary fund (imf) & world. Bank (wb) to countries that experienced economic crisis; require borrowing countries to implement certain policies in order to obtain new loans (or lower interest rates on existing ones) Examples: life and debt & food inc.
