Planning Green Futures

  7.3 Reading: ‘Foodways’ and ‘food deserts’ ·        According to the author , ‘food ways’ is defined as rich way of life of individual in determine which type of food they desire to eat, this could be based on cultural orientation, social and economic food practices, habitual and desires –  Food ways can influence food consumption and disparity.   ·        ’Food deserts was described as those communities or area where people live with little available produce and other foods commonly regarded as healthy . A neighbor lacking without access to healthier food are refers to as food deserts. And these communities in the study were referred to as high pro communities to food related disease such as diabetic, obesity, etc. such communities are normally low income neighborhoods flooded with Africa-America and people with colors. ·        What do the authors identify as the primar...

  7.2 Reading: How can we achieve environmentally sustainable and healthy diets? I like this article Dangour et al. (2017) . His arguments are very clear on the obstacles to achieve environmentally sustainable and health diets. The food system as in the case of production, processing and trading, marketing and distribution and consumption at any stage impact the environment and change in environmental factors such as temperature, rain fall etc and human activities mainly for food production can also impact the food system.  Therefore, the food system is struggling to allocate equitable nutritious and healthy diets because of socioeconomic, political, and cultural factors driving the food system trajectories. The demand of the growing population with their socioeconomic drive towards consuming more of processed and inorganic foods; and their quest to migrate to urban cities have also influence their nutritional life style putting pressure on the food system to provide equitab...

 

Reading through the article written by Charlotte Glennie and Alison Hope Alkon 2018, on food Justice in relation to cultivating the field in the America Farming system, gives me some understanding of how the food justice is defined from Hislop’s (2014) as ‘the struggle against racism, exploitation, and oppression taking place within the food system that addresses inequality’s root causes both within and beyond the food chain.’ In this research, the author identified social injustice as a key driver of food injustice, where an ample of injustice was played against color farmers, and the black Americans depriving them from receiving subsidies making the white farmers more strong and leading the food system array. This has continued over the decades and has subsequently enhanced the white farmers to lead the social network of obtaining high capital investment and land for crop production and animal wearing. The black and color farmers may work hard and receive less dividends, and they c...