SOIL / "THE JUST TRANSITION" / POWER OF FOOD Flashcards
Monboit article title -
“under our feet” soil something
Monboit - bacteria
same in soil same in gut
Monboit - how often can have beef if sustainable?
Once a month. But probably not. The rich would buy it.
Monboit - Perennials -
- way more sustainable / productive in long run
Benny & Aithish ~ title
deepening the just transition through food sovereignty and something
Benny & Aithish ~ political goal =
THE COMMONS
Benny & Aithish ~ food sovereignty = changing society w/o
seizing power
Benny & Aithish ~ S. Africa focus on
Agro-Ecology
Benny & Aithish ~ what kind of economy?
solidarity economy
McMichael - title
the power of food
McMichael - What word has replaced colonialism?
Development
McMichael - financialization has caused =
increasingly fictitious monetary relations
McMichael - aside from West and Russia, this conflict also integral
EU vs US
McMichael - When corps become fewer and bigger =
corporate clustering
McMichael - why GE crops fail?
terminator gene
McMichael - “the culture of the new commons” =
“the blessing in disguise of being marginalized and growing your own food because you’re unemployed”
Lecture - solidarity economy
people over profit
Lecture - ideology explains -
finance and power
Lecture - commodificiation is ____ being denied
reciprocity
Lecture - 2nd effect of denied reciprocity =
social / enviro costs of production are denied, because “it’s just a tomato”
Lecture - free market globalization is =
belief system
McMichael - lots of poor and farmers spend -
half of their income on food
Lecture - “free trade” in other words =
capital is exported / food is imported
Lecture - subjective ways we drive out poor producers =
safety, hygiene, animal cruelty
Lecture - 1st world farmers lobby to be seen as -
“in need” / and therefore become subsidized by 3rd world
Lecture - keyword =
MONOPSONY (like Canadian cellphone service providers)
Lecture - much of Africa (7 countries) creating ** which they do not use
biofuels
Monboit - suggests shrinking acreage because
C02