I am aware that our course considers various perspectives in order to understand our past, present, and future. However, through the keywords task, I was able to gain further insight into concepts from an extremely different viewpoint.

Starting from Anthropocene, I have always argued that this term is often used in science and history textbooks to outline the beginning of the destruction of our environment. Furthermore, the blog post made me consider how there is a possibility that all the talks on food being our basic need is purely absurd since the only thing we have done post-Anthropocene has been the appropriation of previously owned Indigenous resources. This ties in with food security since it implies a community having access to food whenever necessary. Unfortunately, we have not left the planet in conditions for that to happen equally across the world.

In order to be able to improve food security globally, a crucial solution is educating others on food literacy as well as teaching them how to sustain themselves through local food systems. However, the keyword “access” provided a good way to explain why this is not happening. The blog post raises the point of gaining physical and cognitive skills as part of gaining access to mass media content. It is very easy for big institutions to impose new solutions to these complex challenges, but many do not have the access to learn through this mass media because of their lack of resources.

Food sovereignty has also evolved throughout the years, as many communities no longer have the right over controlling the production and consumption of their food, thanks to corporate developers wanting to urbanize every inch of land available, risking land tenure. I believe Indigenous agroecology can play a critical role in improving not only the environment but public health and communities’ well-being.

Putting all these keywords together, I have learned that although there is a large audience, an audience highly fascinated by food studies, we are lucky to have access to learn about our food system, which has been under attack since the Anthropocene.