discussion 10

· “The global food crisis is here: It’s not just that climate change is ravaging the world’s agriculture. Agriculture is also ravaging the climate”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/21/the-global-food-crisis-is-here/Links to an external site.

· “Food loss and food waste” (video, 3 minutes)

http://www.fao.org/policy-support/policy-themes/food-loss-food-waste/en/Links to an external site.  

Food loss and food waste” (video, 3 minutes)

· “49 million people face famine as Ukraine war, climate disasters intensify”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/06/13/climate-disasters-collide-with-ukraine-war-deepen-hunger-crisis/Links to an external site.  

· “Climate change forces desperate Guatemalans to migrate”

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/drought-climate-change-force-guatemalans-migrate-to-us/Links to an external site.

· “What does gender inequality have to do with food insecurity?” (text and video, 2:15 minutes)

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/what-does-gender-equality-have-to-do-with-food-sec/Links to an external site.

· “The campaign to end hunger must focus on violence against women”

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/jun/13/end-hunger-violence-against-womenLinks to an external site.

· Income inequality: Hunger down the block” (video, 7 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6iVby0eOGILinks to an external site.

· “The new face of hunger: Why are people malnourished in the richest country on earth?” (National Geographic photo essay)

· GPCC, chapter 6, “Hunger, poverty, and economic development”

· “The clean farming revolution”

http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-clean-farming-revolution/Links to an external site.

 

· What is the emerging impact of climate change on the world’s food supply? How does this impact reflect “negative externalities” and “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox” ( as described in GPCC, not Michael Polanyi’s Paradox)?

· What is the relationship of gender inequality and violence to food insecurity?

· How are climate change and drought forcing many Guatemalans to migrate?

· GPCC

· What is the most common form of hunger?

· What remains the most basic cause of hunger in the world, including U.S, food insecurity? More generally, how does hunger reflect “negative externalities” of economy, environment/climate, and society, and “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox” ( as described in GPCC)?

· What was the Green Revolution (corporate agribusiness—not the “clean farming revolution/sustainable farming/agroecology)? What have been its lasting problems, and how do they reflect “negative externalities” and “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox” ( as described in GPCC)?

· By contrast, what is the “clean farming revolution” (sustainable farming/agroecology)?

· What is the anatomy of famine? Specifically, what does it mean that “even historically, famines resulted from entitlement failures rather than insufficient food”? Use the example of Malawi to address that question.