SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Food Miles, Commodity Fetishism, Soil Biodiversity
6 Feb 2017
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The tendency, in a capitalist economy, for the range of social and biophysical relations involved in the production of commodities (including unmeasured or undervalued costs) to be hidden and largely incomprehensible. A growing field of research on human environment relations, environmental change and development, combing attention to political economy, environmental science and human ecology. A concept developed by biologists as a way conceptualizing the scale of human impact on the biosphere, quantifies in terms of the control of annual biomass production. Do you know about indigenous intercropping? p. 119. In essence, to increase output per worker in order to reduce the relative cost of labour in production. In 2012, almost 70% of all us farmland was controlled by only 8% of landholders. In canada, the number of farms peaked in 1941 and fell fourfold in 70 years. What is the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex? p. 120.
