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• 2 Week 2

• 2.1 Can there be food sovereignty here? (Tania, 2014)

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• Challenges of food sovereignty before switch from food production to moncrop cacao production

  • Natural disasters, attacked by pests
  • must manage all risks (usage different soil condition different place)
  • poverty and identity issues
  • squeeze tobacco merchants

• After the switch from food production to moncrop cacao production: why didn't a stable 'middle' peasantry emerge?

  • Highlanders started with cacao because profitable
  • shortage of lands made highlanders unable to follow the Indonesians farming patterns
  • Vulnerable to fluctuation market prices
    

• 4 Conditions to put stable food and cash crop regime in place

  1. Characteristics of the crop
  2. access to market
  3. availability of subsidies
  4. social institutions  

• 2.2 Overheating: the world since 1990 (Eriksen, 2016)

• By what is the drive to standardization, simplification and universalization usually encountered

  By a defence of local values, practices and relationships

• Conflict economic development and ecology was based on ....

  Time

• Trade-offs between economic growth and ecology have become an ..... .....

  Internal element

• Explain acceleration of history since 1991

  • Cold war ended
  • EU destabilized borders
  • mobile phone and internet 

• Two changes of a material nature that have consequences for future

  • Population growth
  • growth in energy usage 

• One fact is that the contemporary world is in accelerated growth. Explain why

  More people, machines, connectedness, internet, mobile phones etc

• 2.3 Mimicry & membership (Ferguson, 2002)

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• What was the purpose of mimicry in colonial era by the colonial rulers?

  Purpose of mimicry is to uniform the homogeneity of the colonial territory to simplify their management