Week 1, commodity studies and food regimes Flashcards
Food Studies
A new interdisciplinary approach to the study of food.
A critical analysis. Questions of power. Based in evidence.
Food desert
People have little or no access to healthy and fresh food.
4 major thematic approaches to food studies
1) Political economy
2) Social and cultural perspectives
3) Environmental
4) Health
Sustainability
Ability to meet present needs without compromising.
Food Sovereignty
The rights of peoples and governments to determine their own agricultural systems, food markets, environment, and models of production.
Food security
A condition in which all people have physical, social, and economic access to safe and healthful foods at all times.
Food literacy
Understanding food from field to table, how this affects humans, the environment, and life.
Food crisis is
a tipping point.
Via Campesina
International Peasant’s Movement.
Everybody who is marginalized came together to talk about these issues.
Commodity Studies
Shows how specific food systems happened globally and historically by tracking commodities along supply chains.
Using food as a lens to understand complex social issues.
Food Regimes
Studying food systems as a combination of bottom-up commodity studies with top-down analysis in world systems theory.
World Systems Theory
Suggests world is interregional and transnational, organized globally. This changes how we eat.
Capitalism emerges when countries and states become related in a world market.
When does food crisis ensue?
When tensions and conflicts don’t work themselves out.
What does our current food crisis look like?
Supermarkets dictate what we eat -supermarkets don’t help with food literacy.
Commodity fetishism.
Environmental costs.
Some scholars suggest we are entering a ___ food regime.
Some scholars suggest we are entering a corporate food regime.
