Abstract
The future for food security is more uncertain now than in any recent decade. After more than 70 years of increasing liberalization and globalization of markets and significant success in reducing food insecurity, there seems to be a pause that threatens to both destabilize the global world order and knock back the effort to mobilize science to create a more food secure world. Governments, industry and citizens are pulling back from using competitive markets to promote their interests, raising fears that we are moving into what some have coin a ‘neo-medieval’ world of special interests.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Fader, M., D. Gerten, M. Krause, W. Lucht, and W. Cramer. 2013. Spatial decoupling of agricultural production and consumption: Quantifying dependences of countries on food imports due to domestic land and water constraints. Environmental Research Letters 8(1):392 1–15.
Gilpin, R. 2001. Global political economy: Understanding the international economic order. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Phillipson, M., and S.J. Smyth. 2016. The legal and international trade implications of regulatory lags in GM crop approvals. The Estey Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 17 (2): 76–90.
Zoellick, R. (2001). The WTO and new global trade negotiations: What’s at stake, October 30. Washington, DC: Transcript of Talk to the Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.cfr.org/world/wto-new-global-trade-negotiations-s-stake/, p 4149.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Smyth, S.J., Kerr, W.A., Phillips, P.W.B. (2017). Alternate Futures for Food Security. In: Biotechnology Regulation and Trade. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 51. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53295-0_14
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53295-0_14
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-53293-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-53295-0
eBook Packages: Political Science and International StudiesPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)