Title:	Food Security, Nutrition and sustainablity
Authors:	Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Tabatha Wallington
Keywords:	Food Security
Issue Date:	2010
Publisher:	Earthscan
Description:	A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Crises provide us with opportunities to change and improve the way we do things. They can also end up reinforcing the status quo that provoked them in the first place. Little wonder institutions leap to advance solutions even before the underlying causes of the problem have been determined. This is because crises are profoundly political events in which, in the words of Italian thinker Antonio Gramsci, ‘the old is dying and the new cannot be born.’ The current global food crisis, decades in the making, is such a political event. Everyone from the World Bank, the World Food Programme and the transnational agrochemical companies invite us to believe that the old formula of ‘technology + food aid + global markets’ will reverse the explosion of hunger, poor health and environmental disasters destroying the world’s food systems. A review of the public-private partnership solutions coming from the latest global food summits indicates that the world’s seed, grain and retail monopolies see the current food crisis as a perfect opportunity to further consolidate their hold over the world’s food. This led the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, to warn the world’s leaders that ‘not all opportunities are solutions’
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/26391
ISBN:	978-1-84407-775-5
Appears in Collections:	Food Security Studies

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