Midterm SD3575: Food Security and Sovereignty Spring 2024 Ignatova Morgan Barber
Part I. 40%) Identifications: (10 points each) CHOOSE FOUR.
1. entitlement approach Sen’s entitlement approach focuses on the fact that some people's inability to eat enough food is known as starvation, rather than there being an insufficient amount of food to consume. This can be seen through the statistics that around thirty-percent of our food is turned into food waste instead of feeding the hungry. 2. the rule of experts The rule of experts consists of many different people such as conservationists, economists, scientists, and others that “expertism is a form of power”. These people come together in areas such as Egypt, overlook the problems in areas with…show more content… What is the difference between a.. Imogene Glover, in the documentary The Dust Bowl, says “every farmer is a gambler.” Is she right? What makes farming a “gamble”? What gambles did farmers take that contributed to the Dust Bowl? How did agriculture change during this period and why? What are the effects of the sand? I would like to start this answer off by stating that during the same week, I watched two separate films pertaining to the Dust Bowl during classes, so some of the information below might be from the other film as I am having trouble separating the two. I would like to answer this question simply, yes. I personally believe that every farmer should be considered a gambler. Whether it be through gambling with mother nature, job space, price changes, etc. Previous to the Dust Bowl, the southwestern Great Plains of the United States was home to wheat. There were whet fields as far as the eye could see in order to create a buffering effect during WWI. Mono-cropping the lands led to the soil completely drying out of nutrients, which, in turn, led to the dust clouds causing such tragedy amongst production. Fields were covered in dust, drought spread throughout the lands, human health rapidly declined, and many people had to figure out if they should stay or flee to an area such as California for other agricultural jobs. Many people tried to raise crops inside of their homes as the air quality was too poor to constantly tend to the fields outside, and it seemed that working outdoors was pointless as nothing would grow. However, some people stayed put during these suffering years and the lands healed. The Dust Bowl provides a good example of risks amongst farmers and how job insecurity can come into effect due to environmental
