The 'global food crisis' and the geopolitics of food security

• Autores: Melanie Sommerville, Jamey Essex, Philippe Le Billona
• Localización: Geopolitics, ISSN-e 1557-3028, Vol. 19, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 239-265
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Growing anxieties over food security have recently brought sharp geopolitical overtones to debates about the agro-food sector. Contending that this �geopolitical moment� highlights the mutually constitutive nature of geopolitics and political economies of food, we examine how dominant geopolitical framings of food security extend and deepen neoliberal models of agro-food provisioning, and highlight the need for further attention to these dynamics from political geographers. We develop a preliminary research agenda for further work in the field, focusing on the recent spate of global farmland acquisitions, questions of agro-food governance, the securitisation of hunger and obesity, and the environmental impacts of dominant agro-food systems. Throughout, we highlight the value of a counter-geopolitics of food security for re-situating agro-food politics outside hegemonic policies and institutions, and of the alter-geopolitics of food pursued by communities embodying concrete alternative food production and consumption systems.