Farming ourselves to death? the confluence of crises in the food system in British Columbia and Canada, and the potential for change
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Essay on food system crises and planning in British Columbia; Canadian in subject but about agriculture, not the research system.
The article analyzes agriculture, food security, and planning in Canada rather than the Canadian research system.
Food-system and agricultural crisis analysis in BC/Canada; object is food security, not the research system.
Abstract
Throughout the late 20th century North American agriculture has followed a trajectory of increasingly industrialized production and processing of food (Donaldson and Macinerney 1973; Qualman and Tait 2004). Ownership of Canada’s agriculture land and resources is increasingly consolidated (Qualman and Tait 2004; Statistics Canada 2006a). This raises important questions about how well this consolidated ownership, a decreasing number of corporations focused on agri-business, can serve the public (Qualman and Tait 2004; Berry 1995; Shand 2002; Shiva 2002) and the negative environmental impacts of industrial agriculture (Goering et al. 1993; Roach 2005). An increasingly energy-dependent food system is also a major concern in an era of climate change and peak oil (IPCC 2007; Walker and Sidneysmith 2007; Duncan and Youngquist 1999; Pimentel et al. 1973; Hirsch 2005). With British Columbia’s small farmers facing a range of ecological, economic and socio-political challenges, (Govender et al. 2006; Connell et al. 2007; Cowichan Green Community 2008; Masselink, 2008; SmartGrowth 2008) planners in BC need to consider food security and its relationship to local and global crisis as a key issue of 21st-century planning.
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- Venue
- cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
- Topic
- Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies
- Field
- Social Sciences
- Canadian institutions
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- Keywords
- ConfluenceAgricultureGeographyHistoryArchaeologyComputer science
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