Food and Eating

Question 1

What factors led to Global food? (3)

Answer 1

1. State-led industrial agriculture and international market expansion.
2. Uneven agricultural trade liberalisation.
   The rise of transnational corporations.
3. The financialisation of food and agriculture.

Question 2

What is the green revolution?

Answer 2

intensive agricultural development assistance dominating international aid programs in the 1960s-1970s.

Question 3

What shaped agricultural development during the 1930s-1980s?

Answer 3

Industrialised countries

Question 4

What are middle spaces?

Answer 4

New arenas of governance in the world food economy: middle spaces.

Question 5

What did Wendell Barry suggest?

Answer 5

If you eat, you are involved in agriculture

Question 6

What type of countries find liberalisation of agricultural trade to be slower and more fruitful?

Answer 6

Industrialised countries

Question 7

How have transnational corporations have actively shaped the global food system to fit their own needs? (3)

Answer 7

1. Pricing power
2. Lobbying
3. Taking part in public debates in order to shape public discourse

Question 8

What is food sovereignty (emerged in the 1990s)

Answer 8

The right of people, communities, and countries to define their own agricultural, labour, fishing, food and land policies through ecologically sound and sustainable methods.