WEEK 12: FOOD AND JUSTICE

Question 1

What is food security?

Answer 1

where all people, at all times, have physical, social, economic access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life

Question 2

What is food justice?

Answer 2

• communities exercising right to grow, sell, eat healthy food
• inspired by grassroots movements
• led by Indigenous peoples and POC

Question 3

What does environmental justice strive to do?

Answer 3

• identify environmental risks/exposure areas
• determine proximity of risks to populations that may be affected
• provide awareness, action, support, remediation
• ensure justice and fairness (food and health equity)

Question 4

What are food justice issues?

Answer 4

• animal welfare in food production
• social justice and food production
• food and the environment

Question 5

What is food localism?

Answer 5

want to shorten distance between the original source of food to consumers (farm to table)

Question 6

Why is food localism important?

Answer 6

• reduce carbon emissions
• cost reduction
• help local communities function
• proximity
• relational
• good food
• consumer supported agriculture

Question 7

What are arguments against food localism?

Answer 7

• increased hunger when local food system fails
• inability to keep up with growing population
• cost associated with attention
• dominated by certain farmers
• whole idea of localism is lost
• local food trap

Question 8

What is food sovereignty?

Answer 8

• right of people to define their own agricultural, labour, fishing, food, land policies that are ecologically, socially, economically, culturally appropriate to their unique circumstances
• true right to food and to produce food

Question 9

What is food sovereignty for and against?

Answer 9

• promotes: agri-ecology, peasant/family farming, local original food systems
• against: dominant agricultural practices, growing power of corporations, undemocratic governance

Question 10

What are the 6 pillars of food sovereignty?

Answer 10

1. focuses on food for people
2. builds knowledge/skills
3. works with nature
4. values food providers
5. localizes food systems
6. puts control locallu

Question 11

How are food security and food sovereignty similar?

Answer 11

food security is the goal and sovereignty tells us how to get there

Question 12

How are food security and food sovereignty different?

Answer 12

• sovereignty is associated with grassroot political action

- used by policy makers and intergovernmental organizations

Question 13

How do we achieve food localism?

Answer 13

• scaling up local food
• institutional buying (farm to institutional like schools)
• developing and responding to demand in restaurants
• sourcing of local foods by grocery stores

Question 14

What agricultural, tade, and energy policies are needed?

Answer 14

• multilateral trading system that supports sovereignty and promotes just trades
• energy policies that put energy reduction at heart (promotion of locally controlled biomass economies)
• common agricultural and food policy that favours sustainable local food, fuel, fiber production and consumption