Comments on: Food Security Problems to Arise in South Asia and Southern Africa http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/02/02/food-security-problems-to-arise-in-south-asia-and-southern-africa/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Tue, 22 May 2012 15:40:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ed http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/02/02/food-security-problems-to-arise-in-south-asia-and-southern-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-54974 Ed Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:42:18 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/2008/02/02/food-security-problems-to-arise-in-south-asia-and-southern-africa/#comment-54974 as you say, it's good to hear about scientific that makes the links between the environmental and social problems related to climate change. There does seem to be a tendency though - especially in 'hard science' type studies for Africa and South Asia to be places from which we extract data, figure out what should be done, and then provide a technological solution. No mention in the <a href="http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/22098/Lobell_et_al_Science_2008.pdf" rel="nofollow">Science article</a> of actual people living in these areas, just the "food-insecure", whose subsistence crops are measured using the Hunger Impact Ratio. I wonder whether the authors have any awareness of how their work becomes positioned in a wider discourse of Western development of the Third World? Also, it seems to me deeply ironic that when I read the summary of this post via bloglines it shares its space with a advertisement for <a href="http://jimmydean.com/products/default.aspx?postid=264" rel="nofollow">"Jimmy Dean's D-Lights Breakfast Sandwiches"</a>. I'd hate for Eco-Worldly to be compromising their principles... More <a href="http://localfoods.wordpress.com/posts/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. as you say, it’s good to hear about scientific that makes the links between the environmental and social problems related to climate change. There does seem to be a tendency though – especially in ‘hard science’ type studies for Africa and South Asia to be places from which we extract data, figure out what should be done, and then provide a technological solution. No mention in the Science article of actual people living in these areas, just the “food-insecure”, whose subsistence crops are measured using the Hunger Impact Ratio. I wonder whether the authors have any awareness of how their work becomes positioned in a wider discourse of Western development of the Third World?
Also, it seems to me deeply ironic that when I read the summary of this post via bloglines it shares its space with a advertisement for “Jimmy Dean’s D-Lights Breakfast Sandwiches”. I’d hate for Eco-Worldly to be compromising their principles…

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]]> By: University Update - Stanford University - Food Security Problems to Arise in South Asia and Southern Africa http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/02/02/food-security-problems-to-arise-in-south-asia-and-southern-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-54975 University Update - Stanford University - Food Security Problems to Arise in South Asia and Southern Africa Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:45:59 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/2008/02/02/food-security-problems-to-arise-in-south-asia-and-southern-africa/#comment-54975 [...] State University Food Security Problems to Arise in South Asia and Southern Africa » This Summary is from an article posted at EcoWorldly - International Environmental News for the [...] [...] State University Food Security Problems to Arise in South Asia and Southern Africa » This Summary is from an article posted at EcoWorldly – International Environmental News for the [...]

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