Politics of Food Distribution

2020 ◽  
pp. 177-200
Author(s):  
Charles Anozie Anyanwu
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Acts Of The Apostles ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
The Church

The chapter discusses politics of food distribution (Acts 6: 1-6) and the role of the church in Africa. The work contends that the church in Africa has not done enough in ameliorating or solving the food crisis resulting from inadequate food production and distribution systems. The purpose of the work is to explicate the politics of food distribution as represented in Acts 6:1-6 and make recommendations to the church in Africa. The methods of investigation are exegesis of the Acts of the Apostles 6: 1-6 and review of existing works. Major findings from the study suggest that politics of food distribution was caused by many factors namely: population growth, racism, ethnocentrism, and discrimination. The chapter recommends that the church should mobilize her human and material resources to enhance food production and distribution for her members and nonmembers. Policies and mechanisms to improve food distribution were suggested.

Recommendations: The Development of the Agrarian Sector, with Emphasis on Food Production and Distribution

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-33
Author(s):  
Michael F. Lofchie ◽  
Gleb V. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Debt Burden ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Investment Goods

A critical problem for Africa is that of food production and distribution, highlighted by declines in food production, widespread hunger, and famine. There are several interrelated sources of this problem, both domestic and external. Among them are ecological problems, engendered by climatic and natural conditions; land fertility depletion in many regions of sub-Saharan Africa; the extreme scarcity of financial resources, accentuated by the debt burden and falling terms of trade; a deficit of investment goods and research and development facilities needed for agricultural development; and weaknesses in rural infrastructure, both economic and social. Unbalanced interaction between the rural and urban economies as well as archaic socioeconomic structures play a major role in the problems of food distribution, with consequent effects on food production.

scholarly journals Global Crop Value Chains: Shifts and Challenges in South-North Relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Stefan Nier ◽  
Oliver Klein ◽  
Christine Tamásy
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Crucial Feature ◽  
Food Standards ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Global North

The worldwide importance of crop production is undisputed due to its function for basic nutrition of billions of people. Yet, the emergence of global forces implies severe consequences for the organization of crop value chains. These forces particularly include processes of liberalization and deregulation, the dominance of large retail groups as well as ever-changing consumer demands, leading to continuous reconfigurations of crop value chains. Based on a literature review, this paper aims at thematically ‘organizing’ and differentiating the key findings of relevant empirical studies on global crop value chains, with a particular focus on South-North relations. Thereby, current shifts and challenges are identified and analysed with special attention paid to spatio-relational dimensions. The spatial perspective is important since crop value chains both shape and are shaped by specific geographical settings which is, among others, considered in the growing literature on food geographies. Overall, we could extract three strands of literature on global crop value chains: the integration of smallholders; the role of food standards; and the effect of ‘hidden’ dynamics. These issues especially reveal the interdependencies between the Global South and the Global North as a crucial feature of contemporary crop production and distribution systems. These are A further outcome of the literature analysis is the derivation of suggestions regarding future research and areas of needed progress.

scholarly journals Participative Decision Making of the Faithful in the Church

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Stanislav Přibyl
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Acts Of The Apostles ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Church

The life of the primitive church, to this day, reflects the authenticity of the Church’s practices and its inner arrangement. As such, this article discusses the possibilities of the inner life and order of ecclesiastical communities in the most ancient times of the Church. It does not, however, question the significance of the role of the leading figures within the Church, as it corresponds with concrete pleas to the faithful for obedience, as already mentioned within New Testament writings, likewise does so the institution of the monarchical bishop, as propagated by the epistles of Ignatius of Antioch. However, Luke’s Acts of the Apostles do, for example, contain testimonials of the participation of the entire ecclesiastical community on the appointing of Apostle Matthias and the first seven deacons. Didache, the early Christian treatise, does too, on one note, stress the importance of the carriers of the prophetic charism, nonetheless it does offer ecclesiastical communities with certain criteria regarding their participation on the service of said charismatics, and their assessments thereof. The Gospel of Matthew, along with Paul’s first Epistle to the Corinthians, point towards participation of all the members of the ecclesiastical communities on the execution of essential penal measures against convicted Christians.

The Role of the Presbyter: an Investigation into the Adversus Haereses of Saint Irenaeus

1974 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey G. Sobosan
Keyword(s):  
Acts Of The Apostles ◽  
Pastoral Epistles ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Long Line ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Apostolic Succession ◽  
The Church ◽  
Local Leaders ◽  
Or Task

Irenaeus constantly spoke of the presbyters who possess the succession from the Apostles; those who, together with the succession of the Episcopate, have received the certain gift of truth. For him the importance of the presbyter was based on apostolic succession: the presbyter was a teacher, and teaching determines faith; it is the means by which the faith is preserved and transmitted. The presbyter is a link in the long line of tradition; tradition which disciplines the faithful and determines the future of the church. For this reason alone the presbyter is important for Irenaeus. And this is the basis for the distinct way in which Irenaeus treats him. The presbyter is the primary minister, yet not necessarily a bishop. He is a leader of the Christian community assigned the task of preserving the faith, teaching it and making sure to defend it against error. He holds the chief seat in the administration of the Christian community, and is always associated with the episcopos or bishop. In the writings of Irenaeus there is no clear distinction made between these two terms.We must keep in mind that Christianity began as a movement, not as an established system or institution. The early Christians were all Jews and the authorised Jewish minister was the rabbi (presbyter). From the very beginning the apostles founded new communities and directed them. After particular communities were founded a need arose to select local leaders or administrators for each of these communities. We know from the New Testament that in the various local communities different names were given to these men: in Rome they were called presidents, in Corinth they were called governors, in Ephesus the name given to them was shepherds and in Phillipi they were known as caretakers and ministers. It is only in the Pastoral Epistles and in the Acts of the Apostles that we find these administrators called presbyters, episcopoi. Irenaeus adds further information to the development to the Christian hierarchy by expressing his views on the presbyter as servant of the community. In short the role or task of the presbyter was one of service to the Christian community.

scholarly journals Explanatory Analysis of Factors Influencing the Support for Sustainable Food Production and Distribution Systems: Results from a Rural Canadian Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5324
Author(s):  
Sahand Ashtab ◽  
Robert Campbell
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Sustainable Food Production ◽  
Cape Breton ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production And Distribution

Investigating the viability of alternative food networks (AFNs) is more important than before because of the disruptions in global supply chains and evolving resident composition in different regions. In this regard, this paper reports on findings of a project aimed at identifying factors influencing support for local, sustainable food production, and distribution systems. In the first phase, local residents and international students in Cape Breton, Canada, were surveyed prior to the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to assess their attitudes and values relative to shopping at farmers markets and buying local. In the second phase, mid-pandemic, text mining of Twitter data was used to gauge sentiments related to these same activities. The results of our explanatory analysis suggest that the top two factors influencing decisions to buy local farm products were food attributes and supporting community economic development. In contrast to previous studies, we included an alternate sample group, namely, international students, and explored the relevance of the social aspect of buying local, e.g., meeting the farmer. Among our findings from the application of a logistics regression model to our survey data (N = 125) is the suggestion that the senior non-international student residents of the Cape Breton Island were more probable to be in the category of consumers whose perception of an authentic buy-local experience was limited to distribution channels that allowed for the social aspect of buying local, e.g., meeting the farmer.

The Hardest Case

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Paarlberg
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
Farm Productivity ◽  
Rural Income ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Sub Saharan

This article examines the worsening food crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses how food production has failed to keep pace with population growth, partly due to low farm productivity. Because most Africans are farmers, lagging production per capita translates into little or no rural income growth, and hence little or no increase in the capacity to purchase food. Decades of lagging farm productivity have resulted in a doubling of the number of Africans living in extreme poverty, from 150 million in 1980 to approximately 300 million in 2013. The analysis then turns to the reasons behind the government’s failure to boost farm productivity. The article also considers the potential solutions to the current food and farming crisis.

scholarly journals KEBERGANTUNGAN PENGKOTBAH TERHADAP PERAN ROH KUDUS DALAM PERSIAPAN DAN PENYAMPAIAN FIRMAN TUHAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-122
Author(s):  
Suriawan Suriawan
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Electronic Journal ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church

The sermon is one of the central activities of the church liturgy. The role of the sermon is very important in the Christian ministry, but now we have found several problems of the sermon at the church pulpit. Nowadays, the preacher can easily get the material resources either from books or electronic journal and so on to prepare the sermon. But unfortunatelly, there are many sermons that cannot be applied in daily life or in the other word, such sermons have the poor application. This article wants to emphazise the role of the Holy Spirit for the preacher in preparing the sermon. Why do we need to depend on the role of the Holy Spirit in preparing the sermon? What do mean that we need to depend on the power of the Holy Spirit? These questions above will be discussed in this paper.

scholarly journals A systems approach to navigating food security during COVID-19: Gaps, opportunities, and policy supports

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Alesandros Glaros ◽  
Chloe Alexander ◽  
Jodi Koberinski ◽  
Steffanie Scott ◽  
Stephen Quilley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Community Organizers ◽  
Seasonal Labor

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a series of concatenating problems in the global production and distribution of food. Trade barriers, seasonal labor shortages, food loss and waste, and food safety concerns combine to engender vulnerabili­ties in food systems. A variety of actors—from academics to policy-makers, community organizers, farmers, and homesteaders—are considering the undertaking of creating more resilient food sys­tems. Conventional approaches include fine-tuning existing value chains, consolidating national food distribution systems and bolstering inventory and storage. This paper highlights three alternative strategies for securing a more resilient food system, namely: (i.) leveraging underutilized, often urban, spaces for food production; (ii.) rethinking food waste as a resource; and (iii.) constructing produc­tion-distribution-waste networks, as opposed to chains. Various food systems actors have pursued these strategies for decades. Yet, we argue that the COVID-19 pandemic forces us to urgently con­sider such novel assemblages of actors, institutions, and technologies as key levers in achieving longer term food system resilience. These strategies are often centered around princi­ples of redistribution and reciprocity, and focus on smaller scales, from individual households to com­munities. We high­light examples that have emerged in the spring-summer of 2020 of household and community efforts to reconstruct a more resilient food system. We also undertake a policy analysis to sketch how government supports can facilitate the emergence of these efforts and mobilization beyond the immediate confines of the pandemic.

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