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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.
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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 |