Abstracto
- The environment provides the resources required to meet human needs. However, the extraction and processing of those resources may cause irreversible environmental damage, whose impacts on societies are felt differently across diverse socio-economic groups. In particular, the groups that benefit from resource extraction may not be those that experience the highest impacts compared to others. Environmental justice arises in response to this reality, based on the idea that we all have the right to live in a clean and healthy environment. However, the present global industrialized agro-food system causes many of these irreversible changes, contributing to climate change, deforestation, and loss of biodiversity. It tends to violate the basic criteria of environmental justice by putting the capacity of local communities to produce an adequate food supply at risk. It can threaten their food security.