INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Wage Labour, Wpop, Food Security
23 Nov 2012
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Occurs when there are sig food deficits yr after yr. Micronutrient deficiencies: don"t have enough of certain kinds of foods. Usually happens in response to a shock. Links directly to poverty + market relations (econ devel) High rate of under nutrition in children stunts growth, affects intellectual capacity. Chronically inadequate food supplies + under nutrition in rural + urban areas. Have ppl working on farm right after harvest lots of food, then runs out over year. @times when food shortages, prices go up (harder to buy food) Food problems of under nutrition not just in marginal lands (arid/semi-arid) Can also happen in nats that are food exporters. In s/cases, work for food programs try to ameliorate probs w/decreased food produc. Food goes out of nat b/c responding to market demands in other places. Issues of nats where importing lots of food fr/other places impact produc w/in nat. Decreases prices in nat for what locals are producing.
