Geography
Feeding the World
"Feeding the World" refers to the global challenge of providing food for the Earth's growing population. It encompasses issues such as food security, agricultural productivity, distribution systems, and sustainable farming practices. Geographers study the spatial distribution of food production, trade patterns, and the impact of environmental factors on food availability to understand the complexities of feeding the world's population.
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eBook - PDF- S. Roseneil, S. Frosh, S. Roseneil, S. Frosh(Authors)
- 2012(Publication Date)
- Palgrave Macmillan(Publisher)
I would add that geographers are now increasingly interested in the relationships, experiences, emotions and beliefs surrounding the food chain and the way that food relates to all parts of people’s lives. Food consumers are understood as people located within webs of relationships and within particular localities and settings (homes, restaurants, schools, regions), and the choices people make about what foods to grow, buy or eat are shown to be situated within complex lives with competing priorities, knowledges and imag- inings (see, for example, work by Clarke et al., 2007; Malpass et al., 2007). Likewise, there is now interest in the identities, relationships and routes/roots of food growers (see, for example, Holloway 2002; Kneafsey et al., 2008) and farming is seen as just one possible form of food production. Rosie Cox 167 David Bell and Gill Valentine’s 1997 book, Consuming Geographies exemplified this change. It clearly reflected the growing interest in con- sumption within human geography, put the eating rather than the growing of food to the fore and located food consumption within both places and relationships. Everything about the book reflected the cul- tural turn, from its non-standard, square shape and ‘playful’ cover image to the inclusion of recipes by ‘geography’s centurions’ (the most cited geographers) listed with their position in citation scores. The book’s preface named the cultural turn as both context and source of inspi- ration for its approach. As the first geography text book to focus on food consumption, it marked the move from ‘agriculture’ to ‘food’ geographies in curricula as well as research agendas. Doing food differently One of the most noticeable parts of this new approach to geographies of food is that much more attention is now paid to ‘alternative’ forms of food production/consumption, rather than just to large-scale farming and agri-business.
eBook - PDF- Walter Spiess, Farhana Sultana, Peter Jackson(Authors)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- Springer Open(Publisher)
We have emphasised the differential impacts of resource scarcities on men and women and on younger and older people, challenging conventional solutions that are cast in technocratic terms that ignore their socio-cultural, political and ethical dimensions. In calling for greater understanding of the challenges of food and water security, we advocate the need for theoretically informed, empirically grounded research that addresses questions of scale, focusing on the inter-connections between bio-physical and socio-cultural systems. These are some of the fundamental themes that underpin the International Year of Global Understanding and they are key to addressing the challenges of eating, drinking and surviving, now and in the future. References Beddington, J. (2010). Food, energy, water and the climate: A perfect storm of global events? . London: Government Of fi ce for Science. De Vault, M. L. (1991). Feeding the family: The social organization of caring as gendered work . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Foresight. (2011). The future of food and farming: Final report . London: Government Of fi ce for Science. Garnett, T., Appleby, M. C., Balmford, A., Bateman, I. J., Benton, T. G., Bloomer, P., et al. (2013). Sustainable intensi fi cation in agriculture: Premises and policies. Science, 341 , 33 – 34. Guthman, J. (2011). Weighing in: Obesity, food justice and the limits of capitalism. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. IME. (2013). Global food: Waste not, want not . London: Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Jackson, P. (2006). Thinking geographically. Geography, 91 , 199 – 204. Kjaernes, U., Harvey, M., & Warde, A. (2007). Trust in food: A comparative and institutional analysis . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Malthus, T. R. (1798/2008). An essay on the principle of population . Oxford: Oxford University Press (World Classics). Midgley, J. L. (2013). Food (in)security in the global ‘ north ’ and ‘ south ’ .
eBook - PDFThe Feeding of Nations
Redefining Food Security for the 21st Century
- Mark Gibson(Author)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
100 The Feeding of Nations: Redefining Food Security for the 21st Century References Alexandratos, N., Ed. (1995). World Agriculture: Towards 2010 . Chichester, UK: FAO & John Wiley. Bennett, M. K. (1941). International Contrasts in Food Consumption. Geographical Review 31(3): 365–376. Boschi-Pinto, C., L. Velebit and K. Shibuya (2008). Estimating Child Mortality Due to Diarrhoea in Developing Countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 86(9): 657–736. CFS (2008). Agenda Item II: Assessment of the World Food Security and Nutrition Situation. Committee On World Food Security: Thirty-fourth Session, Rome, Food and Agriculture Organization. Charles, C. (2008) Food Shortages: How Will We Feed the World? Telegraph online: http://www.telegraph. co.uk/Earth/main.jhtml?xml=/Earth/2008/04/22/scifood122.xml. Chen, S. and M. Ravallion (2007). The Developing World Is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight against Poverty. Policy Research Working Paper 4703 . Washington, DC: World Bank. ChildInfo (2009). A World Fit for Children. Child Nutrition . United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). http:// www.childinfo.org/idd.html (accessed 12 February 2011). CIA Factbook (2010). The CIA World Factbook. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ geos/xx.html (accessed 12 October 2010). CRED (2009). The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters: History. The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters. http://www.cred.be/history (accessed 12 June 2010). Cyberschoolbus, U. (2010). Un Global Teaching and Learning Project. UN Global Teaching and Learning Project. http://cyberschoolbus.un.org (accessed 13 February 2011). DeRose, L., E. Messer and S. Millman (1998). Case Study: The Importance of Non-Market Entitlements. In Who’s Hungry? And How Do We Know? Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation, Derose, L., Messer, E., and Millman, S., eds. Tokyo, New York, Paris: United Nations University Press.
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