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When Food Becomes Immaterial Confronting the Digital Age

In the span of a few decades, the world has witnessed a technological revolution, which has generated economic and social change at an unprecedented pace. Today, an app on your smartphone can help raise awareness of a social cause worldwide and help a farmer activate the sprinklers to water her harvest in a remote area. Yet, not every change has brought an advantage:  as echoed by this year’s Right to Food and Nutrition Watch, the dominant use of technologies is bringing questionable benefits to social justice, and more concretely to decreasing hunger and malnutrition rates.

The inequality gap between the richest and those living in utmost poverty has widened, with eight men possessing the same wealth as half of humanity. Hunger and malnutrition rates have been increasing for the last three years from 784 million in 2015 to 821 in 2017– and are expected to continue that path- bringing us to the alarming numbers of a decade ago. Meanwhile, food systems are increasingly captured by the big business, which now dictates what and how we eat.

Within this new age of emerging technologies, the 2018 Watch highlights that the current use and control of technology is detrimental to on our human rights, and it is having a tremendous impact on food and on the means for its procurement

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Publisher: Brot für die Welt, Fian International
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Edition: 10
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Organization: Brot für die Welt
Other organizations: FIAN International
Year: 2018
ISBN: 978-3-943202-45-8
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Type: Book
Content language: English
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