GEOG 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Amartya Sen, Ganges, Food Security
5 Jun 2014
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Week 5 lecture 2: the impact of global food. People living in the periphery and semi-periphery face three basic issues related to food: food security and this often translates into issues associated with land reform; gender issues, particularly women"s rights; and fairer trade. Meanwhile, for people living in the core, the principle concerns relating to food are: impacts of industrial/commercial agriculture, notably environmental impacts; biotechnology; health issues; and food prices. Structural changes in food production have dramatic impacts on the lives of millions of people in the periphery and semi-periphery. They could not afford to buy the food. Vanda shiva, in her work the violence of the green revolution, examined the adverse social and economic impacts of the green revolution in the plains of the ganges river. She revealed how the processes associated with that revolution left millions of people landless and homeless through farm consolidation.
