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In person icon Global Governance of Food and Food Security

Civil Society
Governance
Security
Social Movements
Global
P128
David Barling
University of Hertfordshire
Jessica Duncan
Wageningen University and Research Center

In person icon Building: Maths, Floor: 3, Room: 326

Thursday 14:00 - 15:40 BST (04/09/2014)

Abstract

The liberalisation of the world market is integrating the food supply and has created new layers of governance through multi-lateral international trade rules for food and agriculture under the WTO agreements. The influence of multinationals as global players is increasing at the different stages of the food chain. International private governance forms have emerged through the growth of certification schemes and food quality standards from food safety to far trade to sustainably caught fish. In addition, the price volatility of food commodities is stimulating fresh concerns around the resilience of the global food supply and of national and local food security. The traditional food security concerns over hunger and food aid are being supplemented by issues of: land ownership and rights: the distorting impacts of food commodity financial speculation; and the fundamental environmental and ecosystem challenges facing food production and international and national food supply chains. Traditional forms of state led international diplomacy and international regime formation are being supplemented by new openings for civil society groups and social movements, such as through the reformed FAO Committee on World Food Security and its Civil Society Mechanism. The papers in this panel critically examine these developing forms of global governance over our food and its supply.

Title Details
The Renewed Global Food Security Policy Agenda and the Environmental Policy Divide View Paper Details
Contested Framings of ‘Agricultural Research for Development’ View Paper Details
Food Security as a Tool to Globally Reshape Agrifood Policies View Paper Details
Rationalising from Below: Social Movements and the ‘New Food Policy’ View Paper Details
Investment in Agriculture as a Contested Terrain of Global Food Governance View Paper Details