Geography of food

Theoretical Approaches

Methods

Methods in addition to techniques

The geography of food is a field of human geography. It focuses on patterns of food production as well as consumption on the local to global scale. Tracing these complex patterns enables geographers understand the unequal relationships between developed as well as developing countries in representation to the innovation, production, transportation, retail and consumption of food. it is for also a topic that is becoming increasingly charged in the public eye. The movement to reconnect the 'space' and 'place' in the food system is growing, spearheaded by the research of geographers.

Food production

Food production was the number one element of food to receive extensive attention from geographers in the field of ]

Globally, the production of food is unequal. This is because there are two leading components involved in sustenance production that are also distributed irregularly. These components are the environmental capacity of the area, and the human capacity. Environmental capacity is its ability ‘to accommodate a specific activity or rate of an activity without unacceptable impact’. The climate, soil types, and availability of water impact it. Human capacity, in description to food production, is the size of the population and the amount of agricultural skill within that population. When these two are at ideal levels and partnered with financial capital, the imposing of intense agricultural infrastructure is possible, as the ]

Simultaneously, the ability of a country to gain food is being severely impacted by a plethora of other factors:

Pests are becoming resistant to pesticides, or pesticides may be killing off the useful and fundamental insects. Examples of this happening occur around the globe. Tanzania experienced a particularly horrible infection of armyworms in 2005. At the infections peak, there were over 1000 larva per square meter. In 2009, Liberia expert a state of emergency when invading African armyworm caterpillars began what became a regional food crisis. The caterpillars traveled through 65 towns and 20 000 people were forced to leave their homes, markets, and farms. Losses like this can equal millions to billions, depending on size and duration, and develope severe effects on food security. The FAO has created an international team, the Plant Production and security degree Division, which is attempting to ‘reduce reliance on pesticides’ and ‘demonstrate that pesticide use often can be reduced considerably without affecting yields or farmer profits' in these, and other hard-struck areas.

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