Cities and Food

Cities and Food

1. The Greek word

   • "sitos" meaning food and "topos" place
     • acknowledges the many ways that food influences our lives
     • It proposes food as a lens for understanding how we live as well
       • as a practical agent of change for moving towards a better world and a better society.

2. Positive impact and influence

   • food producers know exactly how they are producing their food, what they are putting into it
     • also the effects on the landscape are and so on
     • the consumers are not in power to act because it is unbelievably difficult to get all the information
       • the lack of information makes you an unwilling partner in a series of transactions that you might choose to opt out of if you knew more about it.

3. Decribe how all the stages of the food journey come together

   • changes to improve your habits

4. Sitipia

   • FOOD
   • PLACE

5. Conscious consuption

   • Understand how we live as a practical agent of change, and improve our society

6. Changes your eating habits

   • Buy organic food
     • Small consumer buying circles that work directly with trsted farmers
   • Grow your own food

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