INDONESIA’S REGIONAL FOOD SECURITY IN LIGHT OF THE IMPENDING GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS

Mycotoxins, a Major Challenge in Global Food Security

Achieving food security in times of crisis.

In spite of several World Food Summits during the past decade, the number of people going to bed hungry is increasing and now exceeds one billion. Food security strategies should therefore be revisited. Food security systems should begin with local communities who can develop and manage community gene, seed, grain and water banks. At the national level, access to balanced diet and clean drinkin...

The global food regime : crisis and restructuring

It is well known that capitalist development depends on free wage labor and previously accumulated capital, as Marx (1967/1867, p. 166) claimed “the owner of money must meet in the market with the free labourer”. This claim, of course, implicitly assumes sufficient supply relatively affordable food for the proletariat in the capitalist sector, as both industrialization and urbanization greatly ...

The roles of veterinarians in meeting the challenges of health and welfare of livestock and global food security

The Economics of Global Food Security

This article outlines a food security synthesis: that food insecurity traces to poverty, that poverty must be addressed by economic development, and that economic development flows from application of the standard model which is now mainstream economics. Food insecure countries do not follow the standard model; their policies for agriculture and other sectors deter development. Why don’t they f...