FOOD SYSTEMS

FOOD SYSTEMS

CIVIC agriculture
1. "Civic agriculture is a locally organized system of agriculture and food production characterized by networks of producers who are bound together by PLACE." -TA Lyson
  1. TERROIR: natural + social terroir + my version of "individual terroir" at the top of self-realization?
2. "The imperative to earn a profit is filtered through a set of cooperative and mutually supporting social relations." -TA Lyson
  1. Kind of like the Danish welfare state(?) where people pay high taxes in order to gain services from the government and are generally satisfied
Cooperative Extension
1. primary educational outreach organization for farmers
2. Still focused on the "individual" more than the "community"
HISTORY
1. Agricultural Industrialization
  1. left unabated since 1920s, esp. after WWII (1939-1945)
    1. with left-over chemicals to use for fertilizers
CONVENTIONAL AGRICULTURE
1. Based on neoclassical theory of economics
  1. relates supply and demand to an individual's rationality and his ability to maximize utility or profit
2. MASSIVE CORPS
  1. TYSON
  2. PERDUE
  3. HORMEL

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	Created by Michelle S about 6 years ago