ID | 133112 |
Title Proper | Trading out of the global food crisis |
Other Title Information | the world trade organization and the geopolitics of food security |
Language | ENG |
Author | Margulis, Matias E |
Publication | 2014. |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | The geopolitics of the Global Food Crisis and international trade has received limited scholarly attention, a significant omission given the major roles of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in structuring world food production and trade flows and as a principal inter-state governing mechanism of the global agro-food system. Analysing recent international policy actions framing the WTO as a 'fix' to the Global Food Crisis, this article points to the value of a critical geopolitics of agro-power sensitive to the spatial reconfiguration of production and power in the global agro-food system, problematising geospatial categories such as 'North' and 'South', and that takes seriously contests for control of geopolitical agents such as the WTO. |
`In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol.19, No.2; May 2014: p.322-350 |
Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol.19, No.2; May 2014: p.322-350 |
Key Words | Global Food Crisis ; International Organization - OP ; Geopolitics ; Food Security ; Food Insecurity ; World Trade Organization - WTO ; Agro Power ; International Policy ; Governing Mechanism ; Global Agro-Food System - GAFS ; International Actor ; Geopolitical Agents ; International Trade |