ABSTRACT
Malnutrition is the result of having an insufficient (calorie-wise) and/or deficient (micronutrient-wise) diet. Since the mid-twentieth century, it has been common to frame hunger as a technological problem; one that can only be resolved with higher yields, more inputs, and all-around better technology. When looked at sociologically, the real complexity of malnutrition, in all of its forms – hunger as well as obesity – is revealed in this chapter. Long-term solutions to food security are located in neither a can (e.g. more inputs) nor patent application (e.g. biotechnology) but in novel social, political, and economic arrangements. And it’s an issue that, as illustrated in Figure 4.1, we simply cannot afford to ignore.
