{"id":119,"date":"2014-06-13T19:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=119"},"modified":"2014-08-09T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T21:19:55","slug":"6-2-introduction","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/geography\/chapter\/6-2-introduction\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction","rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"What is a food system? What type of food systems promote food security? What is the geography of\u00a0food security? What food products are produced in British Columbia? Where do food products from British Columbia go and why?\u00a0Why was Atlantic salmon British Columbia's main agricultural export for 2013?\r\n\r\nThe study of the\u00a0geography of food systems attempts to answer these and\u00a0many more questions.\r\n\r\nThis chapter\u00a0focuses on the concept of food systems.\u00a0A <strong class=\"Bold\">food system<\/strong> encompasses cultural foodways in addition to\u00a0the production, processing, packaging, distribution, marketing, exchange, consumption and disposal or post-consumption treatment of food and food-related items.\r\n\r\nFood systems\u00a0encapsulate some of the most basic ways in which humans interact with their environment,\u00a0including\u00a0a range of historical agricultural practices. A food systems approach\u00a0thus\u00a0allows us to reveal\u00a0the socio-spatial relations that contextualize\u00a0practices around food.\r\n\r\nThe British Columbia (BC) food system encompasses diverse\u00a0cultural foodways from its\u00a0immigrant populations,\u00a0some of the most prolific\u00a0salmon runs in the world,\u00a0a growing seafood sector, a large\u00a0animal husbandry sector and a diverse agribusiness food (agrifoods) industry that is highly integrated into the global marketplace.\u00a0The contemporary BC food system\u00a0plays a critical role in\u00a0both regional food security\u00a0and\u00a0globalized food regimes characteristic of 21st century agribusiness.","rendered":"<p>What is a food system? What type of food systems promote food security? What is the geography of\u00a0food security? What food products are produced in British Columbia? Where do food products from British Columbia go and why?\u00a0Why was Atlantic salmon British Columbia&#8217;s main agricultural export for 2013?<\/p>\n<p>The study of the\u00a0geography of food systems attempts to answer these and\u00a0many more questions.<\/p>\n<p>This chapter\u00a0focuses on the concept of food systems.\u00a0A <strong class=\"Bold\">food system<\/strong> encompasses cultural foodways in addition to\u00a0the production, processing, packaging, distribution, marketing, exchange, consumption and disposal or post-consumption treatment of food and food-related items.<\/p>\n<p>Food systems\u00a0encapsulate some of the most basic ways in which humans interact with their environment,\u00a0including\u00a0a range of historical agricultural practices. 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