The ecology of food and culture.

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Ecology of Food and Culture

Most of the Geographers and the naturalists have greatly commented on the issue of natural resources , food and human relationships for a long time . This idea has been greatly supported by the religious leaders and the political leaders as well . This is so because most communities valued the balance that existed between the human beings and nature (Luoba AI , 2005 . However , this has changed due to industrial modernization as the nature is controlled through education , new technologies and

new ideologies that put emphasis on individualism . More so , education has greatly expanded in its context or field of agriculture , genetics , soil science and food science . These have together improved and promoted the methods of processing , increased food production , food distribution and storage (Webb

Habtu Y , 1994

The term ecology is defined as the scientific study of the abundance of life and the distribution as well as the interactions that occur between the organisms and their surrounding environment , where this environment consists of the physical properties described as local abiotic factors Examples of these abiotic factors are the sunlight , climate , geology and other organisms that are in the same habitat (McCullough A Kirks A Wachs TD , 1990

Our main aim in this is to find out how the ecology has affected the human nature and the food that this human beings need to consume . In this perception considered in the natural sciences , the globe is an interconnected system where variations in one part of the structure influence the whole lot . The sun 's liveliness and the earth 's raw materials produce a series of plant "producers " in this case known as the herbivores "consumers " known as the carnivores , omnivores bacteria , fungi , and "degraders " which are the parasites that take back the natural waste of the producers and consumers back into the scheme Humans are basically among the omnivores where the plant producers and the animal consumers are food to each other with the micro organisms being inclusive (Lentz C , editor , 1998

Generally the size of plants and animals is restricted by the resources obtainable to consume , as well as the capability to become accustomed to environmental stress caused by extreme weather , disease , or poisonous waste . Ecological systems are steadier , or are in equilibrium , when a great number or variety of plant and animal kind is present , rather than hardly any class in any place . Therefore , prairies are more varied and steady than most home farms or cornfields , whose single classes are extremely vulnerable to ecological stressors . Intercropping and crop alternation permit some variety , although the varieties of the plant are limited (McCullough A Kirks A Wachs TD , 1990

Human systems intervention through anthropology or natural features led to cultural ecology , political ecology and human ecology , as the entire process of understanding of environmental density grew . Cultural ecologists considered human cultures as a creation of desert , temperate forest , rain forest , and mountains where people live . Each human tradition was characterized by...