Throughout this course, I have learned so much about how the food system correlates and intersects with politics and overall it was super interesting to learn about. Through my group’s action project on food waste, I have learned that the U.S “wastes, or loses, anywhere between 33 and 50% of all food that is produced annually (Carolan, 126). This is… Read more »
Hunger has been a prevalent topic in this course. Over the last 10 weeks we’ve seen plenty of examples of how hunger effects people across the world (The hungry planet, Kenyan farmers eating grasshoppers in off seasons, King Corn, etc.) World hunger is a big problem and initially our group wasn’t sure how the 6 of us were supposed to… Read more »
Click here for a video about our action project! Water is the foundation of life. It is something that no human, creature, or plant can exist without; the entity that ties our entire world together. It’s also taken for granted and wasted every day by the very people it keeps alive. But who suffers the most? Sadly, the world’s impoverished… Read more »
Non-food agriculture is an important part of our world food system that can easily be overlooked due to the sheer nature of the topic, however, some products currently have or have the potential to create a large impact on the food system as a whole. Hemp is a versatile resource that is currently prohibited for industrialized growth in the United… Read more »
Our group was interested in non-food agriculture. Jokingly, we talked about what it would like if we were to focus on marijuana. As our conversation continued, we wanted to look at hemp. One of our group members had done past research with hemp and was familiar with the legal issues that it entails, so she really convinced us that there… Read more »
For my action project, I wanted to focus on food waste; more specifically, the equity and structural aspects behind food waste. The group I joined formed an organization called The Waste Busters; where we collected food surpluses from local (chain) restaurants, to donate them to organizations in need and ultimately diminish food waste within our food system. Our organization focused… Read more »
Food waste is an on-going affair that plagues all parties involved with the food system in either a direct or in-direct manner. My group’s interest in food waste arose when we heard the stat that 15% reduction in food waste could feed 25 million more Americans each year. To put that into another context, that means that food insecurity in… Read more »
Source: tresyk – Flickr Collective action is hard! That is the main takeaway from my group project. We choose to screen a movie in order to bring awareness of unfair trade practices. We could never find times to meet as we were all busy college students who had jobs. That inhibited creating a healthy group mind. For example, Iris and… Read more »
Every student in college has experienced some sort of group project where one person feels like they are doing most of the work, or simply experienced not the best group dynamics. Learning to be part of a group is a lesson in itself and teaches much more than the content of the project sometimes. Sometimes we get super lucky and… Read more »
Food insecurity is an issue that plagues most of the impoverished people of the world today (HDCs included). Due to this, I decided to join with 4 other individuals in combating food insecurity. The main objectives of our group were simple: find stores or restaurants which would normally throw away extra food, and use that food to create a shared… Read more »