| ID | 133108 |
| Title Proper | Introduction |
| Other Title Information | global food crisis |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Billon, Philippe Le ; Sommerville, Melanie ; Essex, Jamey |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This special issue of Geopolitics focuses on recent shifts in the geopolitics of agro-food systems linked to debates around a new 'Global Food Crisis' and its implications for (trans)national political agendas. Spurred since 2006 by rising food prices, large-scale farmland acquisitions, and growing public protests, these concerns have motivated new streams of development assistance and reforms to global governance processes, as well as strengthened activism by agrarian social movements. While governments and civil society organisations have struggled with how best to address the realities of worsening food insecurity, the discourse of crisis has simultaneously helped to actively reposition food security as an object of urgent geopolitical calculation and strategy. The stubborn grip of continuing poverty and hunger has prompted many observers to envision a future in which chronic food insecurity and associated political and economic disorder are the new normal. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol.19, No.2; May 2014: p.235-238 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol.19, No.2; May 2014: p.235-238 |
| Key Words | Social Context ; Economic Context ; Political Context ; Pubic Protest ; Global Food Crisis ; National Political Agenda - NPA ; Transnational Political Agenda - TNPA ; Global Governance ; Geopolitical Strategy ; Political Disorder ; Economic Disorder ; Food Security ; Food Insecurity |