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GEO 171. ASSIGNMENT THREE: GEOGRAPHIES OF SUSTAINABLE FOOD?

Were we simply to measure the amount produced, there is certainly enough food to supply the entire human population at the moment. But it is increasingly apparent that one of our greatest challenges is the sustainability of our global food system. Thus questions are being raised about our long-run capacity adequately to feed a rising world population. Furthermore, in both developed and developing nations a growing proportion of people are overfed and suffering from obesity-related diseases, while at the same time a significant part of humanity is underfed and malnourished. Finally, there are increasing concerns about both the safety of our food system and its environmental sustainability. Yet despite these challenges there is evidence that positive alternatives and choices may exist. Thus in this paper we ask you to examine the debate around food sustainability by addressing four principal questions:

(i) What are the main challenges currently confronting our global food system?

(ii) What does it mean for a food system to be sustainable and how might this be measured?

(iii) What are possible strategies for developing sustainability?

To answer these questions you must read and cite the following sources in your paper; the first three will be placed on Blackboard:

D Deumling, M Wackernagel, & C Monfreda (2003) Eating up the Earth: How sustainable food systems shrink our ecological footprint, Redefining Progress: For People Nature and the Economy, 1-6.

B Wilson (2008) The Last Bite: Is the world’s food system collapsing? The New Yorker 5/18/2008

P Roberts (2009) Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008, Mother Jones, 3/2/2009

Knox and Marston (2015) Chapter 9 Food and Agriculture, pp. 307-339.

All the instructions we gave you for your first assignment apply to this assignment. You must use an essay style which means you must have an introduction with a statement of purpose and a set of conclusions. You must provide a bibliography, follow our format requirements (numbering pages, font size, stapling, etc.) You are welcome to use additional sources, but you must use and cite the above references. Paper length:1200-1500 words.

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