GGR100H1 Lecture Notes - Florenceville-Bristol, Food Miles, World Trade Organization
Document Summary
Rise of the local food movement is a response to the growing dominance of the global food system. How much and what items of food do you consume that come from the. The reality is that our food system is a mix of local, regional, national and global products. It is a good example of glocalization the co-existence of global and local systems. But even the local system is controlled in part by global agribusiness which supplies inputs and controls distribution and marketing. Factors: the plantation system the beginnings of a global agriculture system. Created by the establishment of empires, large scale production of commodities traded on a global scale: cotton, sugar, rubber, tea, coffee. Population growth- rapid growth in western european populations. Population growth and urbanization needed agriculture to be more productive and changed food into a marketable commodity. Invention of steam engine steam ships and railways. Refrigeration processes and ingredients including artificial fertilizers and pesticides.
