Planning Green Futures

  What are unhealthy diets and what factors contribute to them? An unhealthy diet is defined as the consumption of “high levels of high-energy foods, such as processed foods that are high in fats and sugars” and salt. (WHO, 2018). Unhealthy diets are positively associated with   cardiovascular diseases, obesity, high blood pressure, stomach and colorectal cancer as informed by web research The WHO defined Obesity as medical condition in which the Body Mass Index (BMI) is greater than or equal to 30 and considers an adult overweight as the BMI greater than or equal to 25. Conversely, Malnutrition is defined (FAO on web search) as the deficiencies, excesses of imbalance in a person’s intake of energy and or nutrient. This WHO global fact about over weight and adult obesity is 13% whereas (11% of men and 15% of women) and 38.3 million children under 5 years is overwhelming in 2016. Obesity according the FAO is cause by the imbalance between calories intake and calories ex...

  5.6 Reading: Connecting land and food sovereignty How are land and food politics linked?   In land politics, the leaders at every level determines who get right to how many portion of land, at what time and how long.   This is directly linked with food system in production, trading and consumption. Land has forever been an assets acquired through politics and war in the ancient time. Territorial fighting in the ancient time gives a fraction of fighter large amount of land. This has continued until those fractions has been turned into political fractions whose rule the world in countries, regions and continents. The political power has great influence over the use of land and it resources over the people they rule. The politics of land is inflicting some kind of human right against the “peoples” people working for the land according to Saturnino M. Borras Jr.a, Jennifer C. Francobc & Sofía Monsalve Suárez d 2015.   In an article titled “Politica...

  3.4 Activity: Investigate the links between the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) and food systems Key actors and institution that set up and implementing the SDG are as follow: ·        United Nation organizations, ·        World food Program ·        Food Agricultural organization ·        World Bank ·        International Fund for Agricultural Development ·        International Civil Aviation Organization ·        International atomic Energy Agency… ·        International labour Organization etc.. https://sdg.iisd.org/actors/ The (UNFAO 2021) guidance on core indicators for agrifood systems measured the private sector’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals. The guidance suggested 57 core indicators fo...

  3.2 Reading: Discourse analysis and environmental politics Discourse Discourse as defined by Hajer M. and W. Versteeg 2005 is the “collection of ideas, concepts and categories through which meaning is given to social and physical phenomena, and which is produced and reproduced through an identifiable set of practices”. Other scholars also defined discourse as organization of language above sentence. “ I also want to look at discourse as a set of ideas and feelings that interpret and create a meaning of sentence beyond the ways it is written or said”. Discourse analyses The writers defined discourse analyses as the analysis of a unit of language above sentence used in a social context to perform social functions. Goggle engine refers to discourse analyses as the act of evaluating the language beyond the sentence. The analysis also considers written, spoken and unspoken words. What are the main advantages of using discourse analysis?   The good side of using di...

  5.2 Activity: Life from our land Why is sago palm important?   When a sago tree is mature, starch is extracted from the stem’s spongy centre and processed into an edible coarse flour. Which is a staple for for some citizens. S ago is easier to get hold of in the villages than rice, and it is less experience compared to rice.   It incredible that one harvest is enough for a family to survive for three months meaning it is accessible and available.   ·        To whom is this an important crop?   The Sago palm is important to the Mandobo of Indonesia’s Papua province, who eat sago as traditional breakfast and dinner, Sago is a staple food for Borobudur Temple in Central Java What is meant by customary forest?  S ago forests are a food source, which also have ecological and traditional. cultural benefits to the people. What threats are being faced by communities? - the communities are...