1. Food and Culture Who Really feeds the world – Women – the way forward
Erik Chevrier
November 16th, 2017

2. Exam Date Reminder!!!
For students who do not have an about the exam (SOCI 252 A) Exam Room – MB Exam Date – December 7th Exam Time – 14:00 – 17:00
ANTH 252 students have received an exam date online

3. NO CLASS – November 21st
You DO NOT have class on November 21st. This is a great time for you to meet with your groups and complete part of your assignment.

4. Fill Out Form to Reserve the Date You Bring Your Food Item
Please write your name beside one of the dates for you to prepare your food item for the class.
On the date you choose, you will:
Bring in your pre-prepared food item for the class to taste (we have about 65 students)
Find a way to serve ‘tasters’ to the class
Make sure you do not create an abundance of waste
Bring in your recipe so people can know what is in your food and how you prepared it
Make a display of some sort to entice people to come try your food item
Come on time to class
You can bring in a different food item than the one you wrote about in the previous assignments
BUT YOU MUST COOK/PREPARE IT YOURSELF

5. Competition? – Recap
Capitalism does not encourage competition: (Shiva)
There are large food corporations who monopolize the economy
Prices are fixed by large food corporations who receive government subsidies and who do not account for externalities – i.e. climate, ecology and people’s local needs
(Source, Stanford, 2008)
Issue
Theory of Competition
Real-World Competition
Firm size
Tiny and many
Large firms dominate
Firm size on cost
Costs increase for bigger firms
Decrease for bigger firms
Economies of scale
Limit on firm size
Diminishing returns
Threat of new firms
Relationships (firms)
Completion is anonymous
Strategic competition
Influence on market
Cannot influence prices
Strive to influence prices
Product differentiation
Products are homogeneous
R&D – Products are differentiated
Competition and profits
Do not earn ‘pure profits’
Strive to earn ‘pure profits’

6. World Systems – The State (Immanuel Wallerstein)
States
Sovereignty
Borders
Reciprocal Recognition from other States
Legitimacy
Part of an Interstate System
States create quasi-monopolies
States assert authority in at least seven principal arenas of direct interest to them
1 – Sets rules on how capital & labour flows in and out of its border (people, capital and goods)
2 – Sets rules on property
3 – Sets rules about employment and compensation
4 – Decides which costs are internalized
5 – Decides which economic process may be monopolized and to what degree
6 - They tax
7 – They protect its own core production process internationally

7. Corporation Definition of Corporation in Quebec
A business corporation (also called "corporation" or "legal person") is a separate legal entity and, accordingly, has its own specific rights and obligations.
The purpose of a business corporation is to operate an enterprise in order to generate profits that will be distributed, if applicable, among its shareholders.
A business corporation:
has an existence separate from that of its shareholders;
owns property in its own name;
acquires rights and assumes obligations and liabilities;
signs contracts through its directors;
may sue or be sued in the same way as a natural person
The Corporation – What is a Corporation?
The Corporation – Full Movie - 2h 11min 33sec

8. Who Really Feeds the World – Women (Shiva)
Leipzig Appeal for Food Security in Women’s Hands
Localization and regional instead of globalization
Nonviolence instead of aggressive domination
Equity and reciprocity instead of competition
Respect for the integrity of nature and her species
Understanding humans as part of nature instead of as masters over nature
Protection of biodiversity in production and consumption

9. Transition to Agroecology and Food Democracy (Shiva)
Transition from:
Fiction to reality
Mechanistic, reductionist science to an agroecological science based on relationships and interconnectedness
Seed as the “intellectual property” of corporations to seed as living, diverse, and evolving: towards seed as the commons that is the source of food and the source of life
Chemical intensification to biodiversity intensification and ecological intensification, and from monoculture to diversity
Pseudo-productivity to real productivity
Fake food to real food, from food that destroys our health to food that nourishes our bodies and minds
The obsession with “big” to a nurturing of “small”, from the global to the local
False, manipulated, and fictitious prices based on the Law of Exploitation to real and just prices based on the Law of Return
False idea of competition to the reality of cooperation

10. Nevdanya Nevdanya – Nine seeds & new gift Seed to table links:
Living seeds
Living soils
Living food economies
Seeds of knowledge

11. Thanks!
Questions or concerns?