SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: North American Free Trade Agreement, World Food Programme, World Food Summit
11 Dec 2015
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Chapter 2 changing food systems from top to bottom. Commodity studies: researchers track patterns of production, trade, Food regimes: combines commodity studies with world-systems consumption, and ideas about a single commodity analysis to identify long period of stability and change in agri-food systems. Actor-network theory: tracks human and non-human actants. Gain an appreciation of the social context surrounding the study of food systems food security advocate social welfare, equality, justice security through multilateral food aid. First world food summit held in rome in 1974 in response to crisis of. Goal of food security provides focus on social movements that. United nations world food programme (1974) founded to promote food. Food insecurity appeared in uneven income areas food banks created. 1970s saw rise of concern for quality of food: organic agriculture, Agri-food complex: paradigm centered on relationships between health foods farming and processing. 1980s: wave of new research on specific foods.
