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Geographies of Development: Film Review -Simon Cunich’s film Growing
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Geographies of Development: Film Review -Simon Cunich’s film Growing Change

Introduction

The film, Growing Change is a sixty minute 2008 documentary shot and directed by
Simon Cunich
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The film, and the journey, go further to try and understand the
manner in which the world shall feed itself in the future, which faces major environmental
challenges
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At this juncture, the big question is
whether the ever expanding large scale and energy intensive kind of agriculture could be the
solution to the food crisis
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These concerns coupled with
information regarding the efforts in Venezuela to develop a more equitable and sustainable food
and agriculture system prompted Cunich to head to Venezuela to find out how the system works,
and also establish whether it had any gains on the issues at hand
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Venezuela had abandoned the sector and began concentrating on oil
export business
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This was the cause of a major food crisis
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The featured farmers are gaining
access to land for the very first time, and in a bid to ensure that the country no longer relies on
food imports, they have chosen to work in cooperatives
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The urban poor also have access to affordable food sourced from shops sponsored
by government (Growingchange
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au)
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In the most basic of terms, food
security refers to the situation when there is sufficient food at all levels, be it global, national,
community as well s household level
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Is it sufficient to adequately meet economic demand? If so, what is the price citizens
have to pay for the food, or, is the food sufficient to meet the nutrient and energy requirements?
(Andersen, 2008, p
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In the past, food security described the state of any country and its ability
to access adequate food for its dietary energy requirements, whereby a country that produced the
food it requires, or that which its population demands was said to have food security
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By making use of the latter definition,
countries could claim that they are self sufficient simply by allowing the market forces of

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demand and supply to provide a state of equilibrium without considering the price implications
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The food consumed by a country is either produced locally or imported
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The participants of the November 1996 World Food Summit held in Rome came to the
agreement that for food security to exist, all the people in that community must have physical
and economical access to food
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In a bid to reach the level of food security, the countries went ahead to
recommend other essential conditions being reduction of poverty as well as social justice
(Lorenzana and Mercado, 2002, p
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A study carried out in the United States was able to establish that 85 % of all American
households had food security in 2004
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The
remaining 15 percent experienced some degree of food insecurity at some point in the course of
the year (Nord, Andrews and Carlson, 2005, pp
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In line with the documentary, Lorenzana
and Mercado (2002, p
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In the year 2002 during the
research study, the country was undergoing a food crisis which the authorities were trying to

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solve using compensatory social programs (CSPs)
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Research studies carried out have been able to provide evidence to prove that access to a
sufficient diet largely depends on income as well as employment security
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The economic pattern is posited to
pave the way that allows for socio-economic growth
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851)
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National and international courses of action were recommended, with the
participants coming up with a set of commitments
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For this reason, focus on individual access to food was turned into the main
determinant of food security (Andersen 2009, pp
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The entitlement approach was
recommended at the summit, and it tends to focus of an individual to command food through
production, labor power and trade among others
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As such, a person may still experience hunger

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at individual level despite the fact that there is sufficient food at national level, sub national level,
community level or household level
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In
other terms, wealth creation could be used to describe entitlements
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There exist high levels of inequality in the distribution of wealth and assets amongst
different individuals in society, and this is a common occurrence in all communities
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65-70)
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In addition, they are oppressed by those with more
wealth than them and there is a discrepancy in their ways of living
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The poor therefore continue in their poverty, and with inaccessibility to
food, the food crisis situation continues to grow (Corral, Winters and Gordillo, 2000, pp
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The documentary brings this out very clearly when it features the farmers, the fishermen
and the urban poor
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There are numerous cocoa producers in the lush coastal villages who also engage
in the processing of cocoa, fisher-folk who are out in the sea reaping the benefits of the fresh
laws banning industrial trawling, and numerous urban gardens which are coming in handy in
supplementing diets with their produce of fresh organic farm products
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com
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If the definition of food security is as stated earlier, then the estimate of between 800 and
900 million undernourished persons in the world is an understatement of its prevalence
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Such a case
would be representative of inappropriate intra-household allocation whose solution would be
changes in the diet as opposed to the enhanced ability of the household to acquire additional food
(Andersen, 2009)
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Food Security
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1; pp
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, Winters, P
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, 2000, Food Insecurity and Vulnerability in Latin
America and the Caribbean
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Graduate School of Agricultural
and Resource Economics
Lorenzana, P
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and Merado, C
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Public Health Nutrition
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5, no
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851-857
Nord, M
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and Carlson, S
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USDA-ERS Economic Research Report No
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Third World Quarterly
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24, no
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63-76



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