FOOD SECURITY GOVERNANCE Empowering communities, regulating corporations

• Main Author: McKeon, Nora (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxon Routledge 2015
• Series: Routledge critical security studies series
• Subjects: Food security; Food supply > International cooperation
• Online Access: Click Here to View Status and Holdings.
• Physical Description: 266 pages 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-240) and index
• ISBN: 9780415529099; 9780415529105

Today's global food system generates hunger alongside of land grabs, food waste, health problems, massive greenhouse gas emissions. This book explains why we find ourselves in this situation and explores what we can do to change it. It opens with a review of how the international community (mis)addressed food issues since WWII up to the food crisis of 2008. It then contrasts how actors link up in corporate global food chains and in the local food systems that are considered to be "alternative" but in fact feed most of the world's population. Relevant paradigms - from productivism to food sovereignty - are unpacked and the significance of adopting a rights-based approach to solving food problems highlighted. The author describes how communities around the world are protecting their access to resources and building better ways of food provision and discusses how the Committee on World Food Security - a uniquely inclusive global policy forum since its reform in 2009 - could be supportive of these efforts. The book concludes with a call to blow the whistle on predatory capitalism by building effective public policy instruments for accountable governance and extending their authority to the realm of regulating markets and corporations.