6.8 Activity: Literature search on food justice and discussion
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 can barely establish their own green food shop due to
discriminate and unequal access to resources such as land, and oppression by
the white supremacy.
There is injustice in
food system from production to consumption. Many studies have revealed the fact
that global food production is largely done in the western countries meaning enough
food availability, accessible and affordable occur. Food injustice exacerbate
food insecurity in Africa as a result of the poverty. Food mile, environmental
and climate change issues, land and technology, political and economic instability and low purchasing
power are all drivers for food injustice
and insecurity.
The global food
system is said to be unequally in every aspect, the global obesity and
overweight rates 13% and 39% of adults respectively is associated with the availability
of food intake. While the 8.9% of people in the world are undernourished
represent the food insecurity on the other hand. This clearly explained the inequality
in food consumption. The Africa center for Strategic study February
16, 2021 also confirmed by monitoring the points of some Africa
countries that are in food crisis as a result of key drivers mentioned above.
The opportunity here is that some many community organization,
NGOs and policy makers in the both west and south are promoting and campaign
for food justice and equality by for example promoting local farmers, grocery
shops in neighbors in America. The proVeg International is an organization creating
awareness on reducing the consumption of animal protein all in the bid to
promote food justice and environmental problems. The world Bank and other donors are providing
school feeding in Africa, Sierra Leone for example with the Free Education
project. in the area of projection, local farmers in Africa receiving subsidies
for climate Smart Agriculture and fishermen men in are receiving fishing nets
as subsidies and capability building. Locally in Sierra Leone religious institutions
(mosques and churches) are campaigning for food shearing with the low income
earners especially in the fast months.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aac4b2/pdf
https://africacenter.org/spotlight/food-insecurity-crisis-mounting-africa/
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