SOC 808 Chapter Notes -International Food Policy Research Institute, Farm Crisis, Farm Aid
11 Apr 2014
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Positive and negative consequences of global industrial agriculture. By the end of this module, you should be able to: List some reasons why canadian agriculture is in crisis. Outline ways in which capitalism and the profit motive has influenced agriculture. Explain some of the criticisms against globalized industrial agriculture and the motivations behind the food sovereignty movement. Critical perspectives in food studies, chapters 6 and 10. In the two required chapters for this module, you read about the development of agriculture historically. Here"s a poll question to get you thinking about this more deeply. Keep your initial thoughts in mind over the next few pages. Perhaps you will find a few facts about farming surprising. Before the mid-term, we looked mainly at issues in food consumption: how people buy, prepare, and eat food, and the myriad factors influencing these food decisions. Beginning with this module, we turn to issues in food production.
