Between Promise and Skepticism: The Global South and Our Role as Engaged Intellectuals

The Second High-Level United Nations (UN) Conference on South-South Cooperation (also known as BAPA+40), held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 20 to 22 March 2019, promised to reinvigorate efforts to further achieve and implement South-South cooperation (SSC). Forty years on, the Global South is shaping its image as a solutions provider. Immense strides have been made in improving access to allow a multitude of state and non-state actors to cooperate, while broadening and deepening modes of cooperation and facilitating the exchange of knowledge and transfer of technology, thus moving beyond the simplistic view that developing countries require aid to function and move forward. However, noting these symbolic strides, the Global South should move forward by building understanding of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks; integrating multi-stakeholder models; improving the visibility of peace and security in South-South programming; and building effective communications systems.

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The ?Global South?:Yet Another Attempt to Engage the Other

The Global South ◽

10.2979/gso.2007.1.1.144 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 144-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dorothy Figueira

Keyword(s):

Global South ◽

The Other

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Everywhere but Always Somewhere:Critical Geographies of the Global South

The Global South ◽

10.2979/gso.2007.1.1.117 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 117-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Matthew Sparke

Keyword(s):

Global South

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Oceans and Landless Farms: Linking Southern and Northern Shadow Places of Industrial Livestock (1954–1975)

Environment and History ◽

10.3197/096734020x15900760737202 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Floor Haalboom

Keyword(s):

Animal Feed ◽

Marine Ecosystem ◽

Global South ◽

Humboldt Current ◽

The Public ◽

The Pacific ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

Boom And Bust ◽

History Of ◽

Global North

This article argues for more extensive attention by environmental historians to the role of agriculture and animals in twentieth-century industrialisation and globalisation. To contribute to this aim, this article focuses on the animal feed that enabled the rise of ‘factory farming’ and its ‘shadow places’, by analysing the history of fishmeal. The article links the story of feeding fish to pigs and chickens in one country in the global north (the Netherlands), to that of fishmeal producing countries in the global south (Peru, Chile and Angola in particular) from 1954 to 1975. Analysis of new source material about fishmeal consumption from this period shows that it saw a shift to fishmeal production in the global south rather than the global north, and a boom and bust in the global supply of fishmeal in general and its use in Dutch pigs and poultry farms in particular. Moreover, in different ways, the ocean, and production and consumption places of fishmeal functioned as shadow places of this commodity. The public health, ecological and social impacts of fishmeal – which were a consequence of its cheapness as a feed ingredient – were largely invisible on the other side of the world, until changes in the marine ecosystem of the Pacific Humboldt Current and the large fishmeal crisis of 1972–1973 suddenly changed this.

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