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The globalization of food
A breakfast of coffee, sugar and a banana can link a single kitchen to farms on three continents. Anthropologists follow food along these chains to ask who grows it, who profits, who goes hungry, and how people everywhere remake global foods in local ways.
In this topic
- A global plate is not new
- Sweetness and Power
- Commodity chains
- Worked example: who gets the coffee money?
- Homogenisation or localisation?
- Worked example: fast food in Hong Kong
- Hunger in a world of plenty
- Food deserts and food apartheid
- Local, slow and sovereign
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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