Our lesson begins with how our food production has developed, and, as doing so, how we destroyed the environment. One of the most prominent study on population was done by Tomas Robert Malthus. Born in 1766, he argued that since the rate of population growth and food supply growth are different, there will be more people than food. Fundamentally, he is claiming that food supply determines the population. This theory was the base that lead to Social Darwinism. However, Ester Boserup disagreed. Instead of food determining population, he argued that it is population that influences food supply. According to Boserup, population can make changes and improvement, such as inventions, when they face necessity. Then, how did our food production develop
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No. Still in African countries and some other places in the world, it shows concentrated famine and hunger. Hunger and famine are determined by food security. Food security is, simply, when people have relatively easier access to food source. On the other hand, when people don’t have easy access to food, it is called food insecurity. Where is this difference coming from? It is easy to think that it is about supply and demand, but it is not. It is about supply and effective demand. Effective demand is demand of those who can pay for the food. Food supply doesn’t follow food demand; it follows effective demand. There are three things that cause famine: the redirection of food, the destruction of the productive capacity to grow food and total neglect of the starving. Famine is about power more than food. When a country can’t organize and recover from sudden famine attack, they will never be back. Also, if the government is not organized enough to make the country wealthier, the citizens of the country will suffer from hunger because they won’t have sufficient money to buy food. With this in mind, it is good time to question the food production system. While more than sufficient food is produced, why are some parts of the world still suffering? It is because they are not distributed well. Some countries are rich while other are poor. Rich countries will consume more than enough food, which will lead to obesity, and poor countries won’t be able to consume enough food. It is that
No. Still in African countries and some other places in the world, it shows concentrated famine and hunger. Hunger and famine are determined by food security. Food security is, simply, when people have relatively easier access to food source. On the other hand, when people don’t have easy access to food, it is called food insecurity. Where is this difference coming from? It is easy to think that it is about supply and demand, but it is not. It is about supply and effective demand. Effective demand is demand of those who can pay for the food. Food supply doesn’t follow food demand; it follows effective demand. There are three things that cause famine: the redirection of food, the destruction of the productive capacity to grow food and total neglect of the starving. Famine is about power more than food. When a country can’t organize and recover from sudden famine attack, they will never be back. Also, if the government is not organized enough to make the country wealthier, the citizens of the country will suffer from hunger because they won’t have sufficient money to buy food. With this in mind, it is good time to question the food production system. While more than sufficient food is produced, why are some parts of the world still suffering? It is because they are not distributed well. Some countries are rich while other are poor. Rich countries will consume more than enough food, which will lead to obesity, and poor countries won’t be able to consume enough food. It is that