The food system consists of many aspects of the food production. This refers to the way the food is grown and also the way the food is raised. This system also consists of all the aspects of food distribution. The food system is separated into two different types, namely the global industrial system as well as the local food system. The industrial system has a wider geographic accessibility than the regional system. Alternatively, choices of food are very much connected to the wider worldwide system of food consumption and food production. This will range from the rural workers residing from India all the way to Brazil. First of all, we ought to ask ourselves about the sources of food. How does this food reach the processing plants and how does the already processed food reach our tables. The connection is more of a cycle. The food is produced in most of the rural areas and then sent to the processing plants where it is processed and later packaged for consumption. Therefore, without the rural workers, food could not reach the processing plants hence there is a connection over a wider region.
According to Patel, the solution to the food problem is not producing cheaper foods but the elimination of poverty. Most governments have taken the first option as the ultimate solution to the problem. However, poverty is a key problem that should be dealt with. It is beneficial to teach a poor man how to fish that giving him fish on a daily basis. Therefore, the government should put in place measures that will help in the eradication of poverty. This entails creating employment or providing means with which the poor can fend for themselves. Once this measure has been executed, then our food problem will be resolved. From this help, farmers might even increase hence more food production to help the other poor.
Work Cited
Patel, Raj. Stuffed & Starved: Markets, Power & the Hidden Battle for the World Food System. Melbourne: Black Inc, 2009. Print.
