Sunday, November 2, 2008

Food Security vs Food Justice





I was talking to Prof. Battisti, my Global Warming professor one day, and he is a specialist on Food security. I have always wanted to know the difference between Food Security and Food Justice, and Prof. Battisti gave me a definition of Food Security:

“a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social
and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their
dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life” (FAO 2001).


I found something online about this topic as well:

http://peoplesgrocery.org/brahm/peoples-grocery/why-we-call-it-food-justice

Through my conversation with David (our TA), the answer became clearer that Food Security is more passive while Food Justice is trying to help the people gain the initiative in the access to food. So even they all emphasize on people's access to food, we can see Food Security as a more science point of view while Food Justice a more anthropological one. I'm looking forward to Prof. Pena's lectures on Food Justice :)

--Xiyue Sally Zhang

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