Agribusiness
Brazil's largest crop export is?
Soybeans
In order to function smoothly, farming machinery relies on it
Oil
In the context of food security, this term refers to a condition where individuals, particularly children, have a low height for their age
"Stunted"
In what ways does the ongoing impacts of colonisation influence food security?
Intergenerational poverty
What did former president Bolsonaro permit the usage of despite it being banned?
Pesticides
What is the Green Revolution
The development and expansion of agricultural productivity (through technology, biochemistry & crop breeding technologies)
In the context of food security, this term refers to a condition where individuals, particularly children, have a low weight for height
Wasting
What term refers to the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems?
Food Sovereignty
Millions of hectares of land were converted into:
Cattle and soybeans.
This is the term for nitrogen mixing with chemicals in soil to create a toxic compound
Acidification
What were the 3 assigned readings for this week
Fuchs, D. et al, ‘Food for Thought: The Politics of Financialization in the Agrifood System’, Competition and Change, 17(3), 2013, pp.219 233.
Ioris, A. A. R., ‘The politico ecological economy of neoliberal agribusiness: displacement, financialisation and mystification’, Area, 48(1), 2016, pp.84 91.
Richard Manning, ‘The Oil We Eat: Following the Food Chain back to Iraq’, Harpers Magazine, February 2004.
In remote areas of Australia, what proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people face food insecurity?
1 in 4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
What is one of the issues surrounding the Inclusive Agribusiness model.
class separation, encourages neoliberal policy and the continuation of capitalist labour models
The name of at least one of the institutes responsible for grain research and development in the 1960s
The International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement OR the International Rice Research Institute
In the Northern Territory, how many people are on the income management card system, which restricts how welfare payments can be spent?
~ 22,000
This practice, involving large-scale acquisition of land often without proper compensation or consent, significantly disrupts local food systems and contributes to food insecurity in affected regions. What is it?
Land-Grabbing
What are three of the four main priorities of the neoliberalised agribusiness?
maximisation of growth, surplus, globalisation of markets and short-term accumulation of capital
The name of the proto-European tribe who had a full set of domesticated animals & plants 6,000 years ago
The Linearbandkeramik, the LBK or the Wheat-Beef people
Name the 3 of the worlds biggest trans national corporations as shown in the lecture
nestle, pepsico, coca cola, unilever, kellogs, mars, Cadbury
This term describes the act of states enforcing restrictions on how certain groups can use their money, often with the intention of guiding behavior or promoting certain values
State Paternalism