Nutrition in The Global North and Global South

Nutrition in The Global North and Global South

This paper is an exploration of nutrition and a globalized society. I wrote it as a final paper for a class called Nutrition and Anthropology.

The prompt was: What are the key challenges to good nutrition for all humans in contemporary times? What approaches would be most successful in addressing these challenges? and Discuss how your perspective on nutrition has changed over the semester and what topic(s) were most of interest to you.

This prompt was quite challenging to address with simple solutions. However, while brainstorming for this paper, I realized that I believe the main challenge to good nutrition is that we live in a globalized society in which unequal power dynamics are the driving forces for nutrition, as well as many other factors within society (healthcare, jobs, resource production and acquisition, culture, etc.). This ties back to an Anthropological/Sociological concept that needs to be considered within my studies, as well as on a larger scale- the idea that through globalization, societies are both repressed and freed in different ways.

Food Security for Atlanta- Movement Action Plan

Food Security for Atlanta- Movement Action Plan

This paper was part of my final group project for ANTH 301, Collective Behavior and Social Movements. I worked with 2 other Agnes Scott students to create a Movement Action Plan for a social movement of our choosing. We chose Food Security for our movement, as it encompasses food insecurity, hunger, community involvement, sustainability, as well as many other social and historical factors. This is an academic paper that draws on historical and current social structures to explain the current situation Atlanta is in, ultimately showing how historical factors continue to affect the food sphere in Atlanta and beyond. It also offers a plan to counteract or eliminate some of these patterns of discrimination and food insecurity. This paper showcases not only how we combined many different social and historical concepts to create a straight-forward plan for the social movement, but also how well we worked as a group. By combining our ideas, interests, and expertise in different subject matters, we were able to create a plan that encompasses many different aspects of society and produce a multi-dimensional plan for a movement against food insecurity. In creating this project, I realized how important it is to collaborate with others to create effective, multi-disciplinary plans for action, which is something that I hope to continue to be able to do in the future.