How Can We Globalize Food Sharing ?/Why can not areas that do not provide enough food not provide?

1. How Can We Globalize Food Sharing?/Why can not areas that do not provide enough food not provide?

2. What is globalization? • the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets (globalization of food) • Why globalize? • Has opened up broader communication lines • Brought more companies into other countries • Sharing of food from different areas of the world • Greater connection with the world • All of the products are not just coming from one area that makes all of the profit. This makes it easier for unstable economies to make a profit from their staple good

3. How do we globalize food? • It is difficult to globalize food completely • Globalizing means that all foods are transferred evenly throughout continents • This would mean that those countries, lacking or without a certain food, would have to have food shipped to them • All countries do not export their main crops mainly because they do not feel the need to, since they are prospering or do not have the means to do so. However, some countries rely mainly on exporting goods for a profit

4. Why globalization of food has decreased • One of the most striking features of economic development is the relative decline in the agricultural sector in growing economies. • Globalization has been characterized by a decline in the price of farm products in cross-border trade. • There have also been reductions in governmental distortions in regard to agricultural trade consumption and production.

6. Globalization cont. • The number of manufactured goods has increased while the number of agriculture goods decreased. • Foreign aid coming in to the country weakens the international competitiveness of a country’s farm sector. • Changes in consumption patterns changes the net trade of countries.

7. Globalization cont. • Globally, productivity growth has been faster in the farm sector compared to others • Influence on agricultural trade has sped up globalization • Declines in the costs of transporting large products • Reductions in governmental distortions to agricultural trade • These have boosted economic growth and reduced poverty globally

9. Globalization cont. • Countries with above-average population density havea decline in agricultural comparative advantage • These countries move away from grains and focus onlivestock • This leads to a decline or rise in the food self-sufficiency

10. Food irradation • When food is not immediately used in the US, food irradiation is a way to preserve it. • Food is exposed to a carefully measured amount of intense ionizing radiation. This is done in a special processing room or chamber for a specified duration. With food irradiation, radiant energy (electrons, gamma rays, or x-rays) breaks chemical bonds, leaving the food still fresh-like, but with specific benefits, depending on treatment level (http://ccr.ucdavis.edu/irr/how_food_irr.shtml)

11. Food Irradation

12. Why do certain countries lack in production/produce certain foods? • Terrain may not be arable • Climate may vary too much for certain types of foods to grow in that environment • Foods can be associated with various cultures and different parts of the world i.e. -Mediterranean cuisine is associated with olives and herbs of different sorts -Asian cuisine is typically associated with rice and soy foods

13. Staple Crops Grown in Various Regions Chinese-Japanese region bamboo, millet, mustard, orange, peach, rice, soybean, tea 2. Indochinese-Indonesian region bamboo, banana, coconut, grapefruit, mango, rice, sugar cane, yam Australian region macadamia nut Hindustani region banana, bean, chick-pea, citrus, cucumber, eggplant, mango, mustard, rice, sugar cane 5. Central Asian Central Asian region apple, apricot, bean, carrot, grape, melon, onion, pea, pear, plum, rye, spinach, walnut, wheat Near Eastern region almond, barley, fig, grape, lentil, melon, pea, pistachio, rye, wheat Mediterranean region beetroot, cabbage, celery, fava bean, grape, lettuce, oats, olive, radish, wheat8. African region coffee, millet, oil palm, okra, sorghum, teff, wheat, yam European-Siberian region apple, cherry, chicory, hops, lettuce, pear South American region cacao, cassava, groundout, lima bean, papaya, pineapple, potato, squash, sweet potato, tomato 11. Central American and Mexican region french bean, maize, pepper/chill), potato, squash North American region blueberry, sunflower

15. Globalized Foods • Foods that we consume today are products of globalization. • Foods that we have incorporated into our everyday lives that are and have been globalized include: -Spices, Potatoes, Coffee, Tomatoes, Tea, Chilis, Tobacco

17. Works Cited • http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1554/3007.full • http://www.fao.org/docrep/u8480e/U8480E07.htm • http://faowashington.org/category/events/world-food-prize • http://www.governing.com/news/local/gov-report-cities-lack-resources-provide-adequate-food-shelter.html • http://unionindialogue.org/povertyinitiative/2011/02/11/the-right-to-adequate-food-an-answer-to-food-insecurity/ • http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/science/30tierney.html?pagewanted=all • http://www.stwr.org/ • http://www.stwr.org/globalization/ • http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/20/opinion/la-oe-gottlieb-garlic-globalization-20101020 • http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/food.jsp • http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110523121316.htm  • http://books.google.com/books?id=yeKqYnErgkC&pg=PA243&lpg=PA243&dq=globalize+food+sharing&source=bl&ots=ITejEYfVrc&sig=_K0RJeGjH7sZ3lkJX40SXUXtvfw&hl=en#v=onepage&q=globalize%20food%20sharing&f=false  http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/February08/Features/CovergingPatterns.htm