The Human Population

The Human Population

Unit 2 (DB)

AIU Online Virtual Campus

11-14-2012

Coffee is my food item for this discussion because is developed in over 50 countries globally, and about 30 of these countries generate over 5,000,000 tons of coffee on a yearly basis. Most countries economic success depends on the coffee crop to help keep their economies going. In the USA, the only one place that grows coffee is in Hawaii. (Group, 1997-2003) The country that I choose was India, and it traveled according to Food Miles Calculator at an estimated 7,486 miles. From India to Washington DC and according to Google Maps it will take another 1,417 miles to get from Washington, DC to the nearest grocery store (HEB), and then from this store to my table it will take 1.6 miles with the grand total of 5587.6 miles. (Google, 2012)

A country's gross habitat manufactured goods accounts for a good part of the international trade. For a developing company it is also an important source of revenue. This is a new conception for many countries on the international trade. Thus, the Industrial Age theorizes to have the financially viable, supporting, and communal importance. For the development of globalization, the international trade would ascend. When a nation generates the services and commodities inside its provinces, the international trade would cap the nation with limitations, and this nation would fail to see the Global trade costly proceeds. In the last part of the 20th century, the major drivers of growth came from the worldwide deal. To develop into wealth and encompass the authority to manage the earth financial system all nations must have a sturdy international trade that would gain the authority. To help stop poverty in the developing nations one of the main suppliers would come from the worldwide trade. (EconomyWatch, 2010)

Trade between countries increased, during the industrial revolution. So transporting fundamental foodstuff around the World quickly developed into vigilantly impossible. The World buy and sell undeveloped crops were valued at $1,035 trillion In 2008, (Wright & Boorse, 2011)

Home rations are new foodstuff raised on farmhouses in close proximity and vended to the farmers' market s and the autonomous neighboring superstores. A movement is gaining ground along with the recession that people are beginning to purchase local foods. The local farmers' market when they receive the foodstuff to sell to their customers do not have to go far to pickup any of the foodstuff nor do they have to wait days to receive what they need to replenish. When receiving from the local farms they do not have to worry about pollution either as the foodstuff is being delivered. As far as food quality, the local foodstuff is fresher and far more nutritious with fewer preservatives