Anthropology Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food

B: “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food” is an effort by the USDA to develop and strengthen local food systems. Please explore their website (below) including reading their mission statement, programs and services, and look for local projects (check out Chico and/or your home town/region). Then write a response of about two paragraphs summarizing what you have learned about the program, and its potential value in light of what you are reading in Bodley Chapter 4. http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=KNOWYOURFARMER C: After reading Bodley Chapter 4, please answer the following questions: In just a few sentences describe what the “Malthusian Dilemma” is. “Population growth, subsistence intensification, and increasing social complexity are so interrelated that it is not easy to decide which process most influences the structure of a food system” (p. 165). Explain what this means and support it with examples from the chapter. What are some “adverse side effects” of the evolutionary “progress” of food systems? Hartman and Boyce studied in Bangladeshi in the 1970s, and wrote (as quoted in Bodley, p. 172) “Hunger in Bangladesh is neither natural nor inevitable. Its causes are deeply rooted, but they are man-made.”. Use what you now know about Bangladesh to explain this statement.