_Social and cultural contexts
Impacts of sustainable ideologies and The Green Movement
The realisation of the proposed scenarios depicted in this week’s readings, signify a shift in how humans can rely on the land, so to speak, and develop inherent qualities of self-sufficiency and human development.
Sustainable Agriculture
Towards Sustainable Food Systems - The Food System; Hunger and Plenty
Towards Sustainable Food Systems - The Food System; Hunger and Plenty
Adding Value to Food for Farmers and Local Communities Towards Sustainable Rural Communities - Dying Rural Communities: The Social Costs of Countryside Modernisation
Participation and Partnerships for Community Regeneration Making Support and New Policies for A Living Land
The reliance on locally grown food and natural resources is a clear shift from communities that currently live off the land within their regions. It almost denotes qualities of primitivism, in which these ideas are propelled into current contexts. The initiative of self-sufficient communities produces a contrast in their actual value; an escape to the countryside would appear as frivolous but a self-sufficient community is far from an escape to nature-like living. The consumption of modern technology is where the world progresses towards today and a so called self-sufficient community wouldn’t necessarily be autonomous because of its dependence on technological advancement. A contrast of urban and rural living is clearly illustrated where location is the solution to these dependencies, and the comparisons of high and low density living subdues a change for lessened dependency on technology and more dependency on the community.
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