AFRICA'S FOOD SECURITY UNDER GLOBALIZATION

Attaining food and environmental security in an era of globalization

Attaining the twin goals of food and environmental security in the coming decades poses a significant sustainability challenge. This paper examines the food and environmental security implications of a range of policies affecting the global food economy and terrestrial ecosystems, first in the context of historically segmented markets, and secondly in a hypothetical future world of fully integr...

Governance and Food Security in an Aga of Globalization

Globalization and food security: novel questions in a novel context?

This paper argues that analyses of food security highlight fundamental contradictions at the heart of the globalization project. It examines the concept of food security and evaluates how national strategies to promote it have been undermined by economic liberalization since the 1980s. It finds that unless current policies are drastically reformed, traditional patterns of food insecurity will c...

Globalization of food systems in developing countries: impact on food security and nutrition.

Food or Fuel: Globalization, BioFuel, and Sovereign Food Security in the Mexican Maize Industry

This paper analyzes the effects of globalized capitalism and internal economic culture shifts from small-scale farming-oriented to large-scale export-oriented farming have had on production and consumption in the Mexican maize (corn) industry, paying particular attention to how this shift has left local populations vulnerable to food scarcity and insecurity resulting from global corn market shi...