The politics of hunger: the global food system and World hunger and the world economy: and other essays in development economics

1988 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-283
Author(s):  
A. M. Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Development Economics ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Food System ◽  
World Hunger ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
Global Food

scholarly journals Making degrowth locally meaningful: the case of the Faroese grindadráp

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ragnheiður Bogadóttir ◽  
Elisabeth Skarðhamar Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Faroe Islands ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Economic Strategies ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
Food Procurement ◽  
Relational Ethic ◽  
Global Food

Abstract While the doxa of growth continues to dominate mainstream understandings of what constitutes a healthy economy, the concept and agenda of degrowth beg for theorization about how culture and power render some economic strategies more viable and meaningful than others. In this article we discuss the highly contested practice of Faroese pilot whaling, grindadráp. Through autoethnographic methods we identify and analyze forces challenging this deep-rooted practice, both within and outside Faroese society. Faroese resistance to abandon the practice, expressed in local pro-whaling narratives suggest that, in the struggle to legitimize the grindadráp as a sustainable and eco-friendly practice, Faroese people are simultaneously deconstructing central tenets of the global food system, and comparing grindadráp favorably with the injustices and cruelties of industrial food procurement. In this sense, we argue that the grindadráp not only constitutes a locally meaningful alternative to growth-dominated economic practices, but may also, in this capacity, inspire Faroese people to reduce engagement with economic activities that negatively impact the environment and perpetuate social and environmental injustices in the world. Keywords: Degrowth, whaling, Faroe Islands, relational ethic, noncapitalism.

scholarly journals Introduction: Ethics and the Future of the Global Food System

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-33
Author(s):  
Madison Powers
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Pollution ◽  
Dietary Patterns ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Food System ◽  
World Population ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Freshwater Availability

The coming decades will present an immense challenge for the planet: sustainably feeding nearly ten billion people that are expected to be alive by 2050. This is no small task, and one that intersects with climate change, geopolitics, the increased globalization of agricultural markets, and the emergence of new technologies. The world faces a challenge of increased demand, propelled by an expanding world population and a global shift in dietary patterns toward more resource-intensive foods. Moreover, changes in demand occur in the context of declining soil fertility and freshwater availability, agriculture's growing contribution to water pollution and climate change, and the emerging threats to agricultural productivity caused by climate disruption.

The Regulation of Agri-Food Safety by Regulations

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-107
Author(s):  
Surbhi Kapur
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food System ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
Risk Assessment And Management ◽  
Global Food

The majority of the nations around the world have become melting pots of civilization, leading to an increasing interconnectedness of the global food system. However, with the long-winded food supply chains there exists information asymmetry between the consumers and the food they consume, making them more vulnerable to the outbreaks of diseases caused by tainted food. As an assurance that food is acceptable for human and animal consumption, food safety averts any exposure to food frauds and foodborne illness outbreaks therefrom. For this reason, the law endows the food regulators and the food business operators (FBOs) with the “trace, alert, and recall” tools at all levels of a food supply chain to regulate the safety of both the domestic as well as the imported articles of food. As a risk assessment and management tool, traceability furthers the mandate of law enforcement in facilitating and targeting the recall or removal/withdrawal of articles of foods.

Decolonizing Food Systems: Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Revitalization, and Agroecology as Counter-Hegemonic Movements

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 173-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Figueroa-Helland ◽  
Cassidy Thomas ◽  
Abigail Pérez Aguilera
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
World System ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Global Food

Abstract We employ an intersection of critical approaches to examine the global food system crisis and its alternatives. We examine counterhegemonic movements and organizations advancing programs of constructive resistance and decolonization based on food sovereignty, indigenous revitalization and agroecology. Food system alternatives rooted in intersectional critiques of the world-system open spaces for materially-grounded, commons-based socioecological relations that make just, sustainable, and equitable worlds possible beyond a civilization in crisis.

scholarly journals Arguments for Well-Regulated Capitalism, and Implications for Global Ethics, Food, Environment, Climate Change, and Beyond

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-98
Author(s):  
Mark Budolfson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Food Environment ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Ethics ◽  
Global Ethics ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
The Future ◽  
Global Food

AbstractDiscourse on food ethics often advocates the anti-capitalist idea that we need less capitalism, less growth, and less globalization if we want to make the world a better and more equitable place. This idea is also familiar from much discourse in global ethics, environment, and political theory, more generally. However, many experts argue that this anti-capitalist idea is not supported by reason and argument, and is actually wrong. As part of the roundtable, “Ethics and the Future of the Global Food System,” the main contribution of this essay is to explain the structure of the leading arguments against this anti-capitalist idea, and in favor of well-regulated capitalism. I initially focus on general arguments for and against globalized capitalism. I then turn to implications for the food, environment, climate change, and beyond. Finally, I clarify the important kernel of truth in the critique of neoliberalism familiar from food ethics, political theory, and beyond—as well as the limitations of that critique.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venus Bivar
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Food System ◽  
Foreign Market ◽  
Total Output ◽  
War Of Attrition ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Quality Production

By the 1980s the French agricultural sector had become one of the most powerful players in the global food system. It was the second largest exporter in the world and its foreign-market earnings led many to refer to the farm sector as the "green petroleum" of France. Others, however, preferred to believe that French agriculture was grounded in terroir-based artisanal production, a wilful misrecognition that the state used to its advantage, marketing French foodstuffs as quality products. While quality production certainly did increase, buttressed by the introduction of such labels as the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC), non-industrial production only ever accounted for a marginal percentage of total output. Caught between the reality of industrial production and a public reputation for quality output, French farmers continued to navigate the war of attrition brought on by industrialization and to resist their own obsolescence.

World Hunger, the Global Food System, and (International) Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-48
Author(s):  
Anna Chadwick
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Food System ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
World Hunger ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
Global North ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
Market Relations ◽  
Global Food

This chapter seeks to explain why it is that in spite of long-standing and concerted interventions to address world hunger the efforts of the international community have consistently fallen short. The chapter begins by locating the origins of the contemporary global food system in the period of European colonialism, and it then explores the place of law in creating conditions of food insecurity through the establishment of new market relations between colonial powers and colonized peoples. Particular attention is paid to the special role of public international law in enabling the perpetuation of colonial dynamics even after the period of decolonization through neocolonial practices of ‘economic development’. After examining the operations of regimes of international economic law and their interaction with private law norms, the chapter concludes that international law has been a key mechanism whereby the food security of populations of the Global South has been subordinated to the economic interests of wealthier market actors in the Global North.

Deadly diets: geographical reflections on the global food system

Geography ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.M. Young
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
Global Food
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document