Week Two: Marcel Mazoyer and Laurence Roudart, A History of World AgricultureThe authors write that "the ratio of gross productivity between the least productive manual agriculture and the most productive motorized agriculture is today on the order of more that 1 to 1000!" (Mazoyer, 441). This disparity is amazing, and the economic inequality that results from this wide cleft in agricultural technology has had devastating effects on parts of the underdeveloped world. How do you relate the agricultural trends in the United States to this global outcome?
--Brent W.
"Disadvantaged by their low level of equipment, the producers in developing countries tried to take advantage of their natural advantage by specializing, at least partially, in tropical export crops, for which there was initially less competition. Ultimately many of these crops were subjected to the competition of replacement industrial products." (Page 52)
ReplyDeleteThe agricultural trends in the U.S have an extensive impact on these developing countries. By using synthetic products to replace the natural products of these countries is not only bad for the environment but for the well being of these countries agricultural economy. It seems that with this current trend the developing countries will stay developing.
-Kyle B.
"Culture, which includes ethnicity and national identity, is one of the most obvious ways of distinguishing food systems as other." (pg24 culinary tourism)
ReplyDeleteFood systems in this article are broken down into categories. Food can help people travel to diffent styles of cuisine and just eating the food can help you learn an area's history. America has made products that help the culinary tourist go only as far as their grocery store in able to get "middle eastern tabouli" or "thai ginger and vegetable noodles" culinary tourism occurs from people's general interest in food which has fueled this producing nation.