Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-r6qrq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-26T04:48:35.124Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The impact of globalisation, free trade and technology on food and nutrition in the new millennium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Philip McMichael
Philip McMichael*
Affiliation:
Department of Rural Sociology, 117 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853–7801, USA
*
Corresponding author: Professor P. McMichael, fax +1 607 254 2896, email pdm1@cornell.edu
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The millennium promises a dramatic politicisation of the food question. In addition to the prominent issues of food security, hunger and nutrition, bioengineering, food safety and quality, there are related issues of environmental sustainability, power, sovereignty and rights. All these issues are deeply implicated in the current corporate form of globalisation, which is transforming historic global arrangements by subordinating public institutions and the question of food security to private solutions. The present paper questions the self-evident association between globalisation and nutritional improvement.

Keywords

GlobalisationFood securityNutritional improvement
Type
International and Public Health Group Symposium on ‘Nutritional challenges in the new millennium’
Information
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , May 2001 , pp. 215 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2001

References

ActionAid (2000) Crops and robbers. Biopiracy and the patenting of staple food crops. ActionAid. http://www.actionaid.orgGoogle Scholar
Alvares, C (1997) An Indian village bucks GATT over control of genetic resources. Third World Resurgence 84, 11–12.Google Scholar
Bello, W (2000) Does world trade need World Trade Organization? Businessworld 11 January issue.Google Scholar
BIOTHAI, GRAIN, MASIPAG and PAN Indonesia (1999) Whose agenda? The corporatee takeover of corn in SE Asia. http://www.grain.org/publications/reports/takeover.htmGoogle Scholar
Delgado, C, Rosegrant, M, Steinfeld, H, Elui, S & Courbois, C (1999) Livestock to 2020. The Next Food Revolution. Washington, DC: IFPRI.Google Scholar
Food and Agriculture Organization (2000) FAO statistical tables 2000. http://www.apps.fao.org/page/collections?subset= agricultureGoogle Scholar
Fox, MW (2000) More help or more harm? Genetically engineered crops and world hunger. Bioethics@hsus.orgGoogle Scholar
Gorelick, S (2000) Facing the farm crisis. Ecologist 30, 28–32.Google Scholar
GRAIN (2000) Engineering solutions to malnutrition. http://www. grain.org/publications/reports/malnutrition.htmGoogle Scholar
Greenfield, G (1999) The WTO, the world food system, and the politics of harmonised destruction. http://www.labournet. org/discuss/global/wto.htmlGoogle Scholar
Heffernan, B (1999) Consolidation in the food and agriculture system. Report to the National Farmers Union, United States. http://www.nfu.org/whstudy.htmlGoogle Scholar
Kimbrell, A (1998) Why biotechnology and high-tech agriculture cannot feed the world. Ecologist 28, 294–298.Google Scholar
Kingsnorth, P (1999) India cheers while Monsanto burns. Ecologist 29, 9–11.Google Scholar
Lang, TM, Heasman, M & Pitt, J (1999) Food, globalisation and a new public health agenda. International Forum on Globalisation, San Francisco. http://www.mydocuments/globalisation/whitepaper99fin.docGoogle Scholar
Lehman, K & Krebs, A (1996) Control of the World's food supply. In The Case Against the Global Economy, pp. 122–130 [Mander, J and Goldsmith, E, editors]. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.Google Scholar
McMichael, P (2000) Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.Google Scholar
Pinstrup-Andersen, P, Pandya-Lorch, R & Rosegrant, MW (1999) World Food Prospects: Critical Issues For the Early Twenty-First Century. Washington, DC: IFPRI.Google Scholar
Pistorius, R & van Wijk, J (1999) The Exploitation of Plant Genetic Information. Political Strategies in Crop Development. Wallingford, Oxon: CABI Publishing.Google Scholar
Rifkin, J (1998) The Biotech Century. Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World. New York: Putnam.Google Scholar
Ritchie, M (1993) Breaking the Deadlock: The United States and Agricultural Policy in the Uruguay Round. Minneapolis, MN: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.Google Scholar
Sanderson, S (1986) The emergence of the ‘world steer:’ internationalization and foreign domination in Latin American cattle production. In Food, the State and International Political Economy, pp. 123–148 [Tullis, FL and Hollist, WL, editors]. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.Google Scholar
Shiva, V (1997) Biopiracy. The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. Boston, MA: South End Press.Google Scholar
Watkins, K (1996) Free trade and farm fallacies. From the Uruguay Round to the World Food Summit. Ecologist 26, 244–255.Google Scholar