ENVS 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Global Sourcing
6 Sep 2018
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ENVS 001
10/6/17
Guest Lecture: Amy Trubeck
Food System
➢ Production & processing
➢ Distribution & Consumption & Waste
o Interconnected and interdependent nature of food
➢ All effecting the health of
o Environment
o Economy
o Society (equity)
o Individual nutrition
➢ Food System
o An interconnected web of activities. Resources and people that extends across all
domains involve in providing human nourishment and sustaining health
o Happens on so many different scales
▪ Responds to social, cultural, political, health and environmental conditions
and can be identified on multiple scales, from a household kitchen to a
rural village to the globe
o Food is a privilege when we don’t have to think about it every single day when
we wake up
o An issue we have very little understanding of
➢ Systems Maxims
o Play into the way we think about food systems
o The part and the whole
o Network of relationships
o Contextual thinking
▪ Understand the context in which people make their food choices every
single day
o Learning by looking closely at problems and issues
