Globalization of Food

The world agrifood system is becoming increasingly globalized. As the majority of the world moves into cities, and as rural inhabitants who are connected to infrastructure adopt more urbanized lifestyles, food consumption is becom- ing both more varied and more similar around the world. The food processing and retail industries have become global players, and farmers are increasingly specializing their production, leading to changes in inputs such as water, seeds, feeds, and technical equipment and, ultimately, to new organizational arrangements in the food system.

The construction of a better world calls for a value-based approach. Globalization has generated levels of wealth never seen before, making possible and therefore, morally inescapable the previously utopian task of eliminating poverty and hunger on the planet. This is now more urgent than ever: while rising food prices are threatening the already precarious livelihoods of many of the world’s most vulnerable people in the short term; proper global governance structures and institutions related to the four interrelated issues of food, energy, climate change, and natural resource management will be crucial for the poor and the hungry and, indeed, for all humanity in the medium and long terms.

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