Geography of food

Part of a series on
Geography
Portal Outline
History of geography Graeco-Roman Chinese Islamic Age of Discovery History of cartography Environmental determinism Regional geography Quantitative revolution Critical geography
Human geography Fields Cognitive Cultural Development Economic Food Health Historical Internet Religion Social Political Population Transportation Tourism Urban
Physical geography Fields Biogeography Phytogeography Zoogeography Climatology / Paleoclimatology Coastal geography Earth science Geology Geomorphology Glaciology Hydrology / Hydrography Landscape ecology Limnology Oceanography Palaeogeography Pedology Quaternary science
Technical geography Fields Geodesign Geodesy Geoinformatics Geographic information science Geomatics Statistical geography Spatial analysis Time geography
Methods Cartography Computer cartography Web mapping Ethnography Geographic information systems Distributed GIS Internet GIS Web GIS Geostatistics Geovisualization Global Positioning System Map algebra Participant observation Photogrammetry Remote Sensing Statistical survey Qualitative methods
Theoretical Approaches Behavioral Critical Feminist Marxist Non-representational theory Modernism Structuralism Semiotics Postmodernism Post-structuralism Deconstruction
Societies Index Geographers
v t e

The geography of food is a field of human geography. It focuses on patterns of food production and consumption on the local to global scale. Tracing these complex patterns helps geographers understand the unequal relationships between developed and developing countries in relation to the innovation, production, transportation, retail and consumption of food. It is also a topic that is becoming increasingly charged in the public eye. The movement to reconnect the 'space' and 'place' in the food system is growing, spearheaded by the research of geographers.