Why is There Uneven Access to Food? Crash Course Geography #42

Food insecurity, or the lack of access to enough nutritious food, is a complex problem. In the 21st century, even with all of our advances in technology, access to food is still uneven. Today we're going to look at the diffusion of food across the globe during the Columbian Exchange and examine how changes in food technology from the Agricultural Revolution to the Green Revolution to the Genetic Revolution have played a significant part in food availability across the globe. SOURCES General For a free and open source option for Intro to Human Geography, see: https://humangeography.pressbooks.com/ For a free and open source option for World Regional Geography, see: https://worldgeography.pressbooks.com/front-matter/introduction/ Cracking the AP Human Geography Exam: 2020 edition. The Princeton Review. Hobbs, Joseph J. Fundamental of World Regional Geography, 4th ed. Cengage. 2017. Miller and Spoolman. Living in the Environment 19th ed. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning. 2017. ISBN: 978-1-337-09415-3 Gregory, Derek, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael Watts, and Sarah Whatmore, eds. 2009. The Dictionary of Human Geography. 5th ed. Willey-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-4051-3288-6 Chad https://borgenproject.org/10-facts-about-hunger-in-chad/ https://www.fao.org/hunger/en/ Wheat https://wheatworld.org/wheat-101/wheat-facts/ https://www.fao.org/3/Y4343E/y4343e02.htm https://muse.jhu.edu/article/488280 https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jecs/issue/46756/586181 https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/article-abstract/18/2/33/45845/You-Can-Never- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880908000194 (wheat beat the heat) ttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95014-6 Overall production https://ourworldindata.org/crop-yields https://www.fao.org/3/u8480e/U8480E07.htm#Proportions%20of%20food%20in%20average%20diets https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/nunn/files/nunn_qian_jep_2010.pdf https://theconversation.com/ocean-warming-has-fisheries-on-t