The World Food System
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
EP 07 An alternative food system? Agroecology PT 3: Examples of agroecology
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Agroecology in action demonstrates its capacity to feed people, cool the climate, and produce a living wage.
EP 07 An alternative food system? Agroecology PT 2: What is agroecology?
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The principals of agroecology are reviewed and the ways in which it meets the challenges that need to be met by contemporary agriculture are establish...
EP 07 An alternative food system? Agroecology PT 1: Why not organic?
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The multiple crises of the corporate food regime suggest that an alternative food system needs to be developed. However, the rapid growth of transnati...
EP 06 Crisis and the demand for food PT 4: COVID-19 and the corporate food regime
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The mechanisms by which industrial agriculture increases the likelihood of zoonotic diseases are reviewed.
EP 06 Crisis and the demand for food PT 3: Crisis in the supply of food
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The ways in which emerging constraints upon the production of food might impact upon food prices is reviewed, before evaluating the relative merits of...
EP 06 Crisis and the demand for food PT 2: Crisis and food prices
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The ways in which changing patterns in the demand for food might impact upon food prices is reviewed.
EP 06 Crises in the corporate food regime PT 1: Crisis and food prices
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The challenges produced by the corporate food regime have been amply demonstrated in the 21st century by rising food price inflation since 2007 and th...
EP 05 The corporate food regime and financialization
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The contemporary world food system has seen the entrance of global finance in an historically-unprecedented way. Since the deregulation of financial c...
EP 04 The corporate food regime PT 5: The challenges of the corporate food regime
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The configuration of the production, distribution and consumption of food within the contemporary world food system produces planetary challenges that...
EP 04 The corporate food regime PT 4: Monopoly power
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The corporate food regime has witnessed a remarkable and historically unprecedented concentration and centralization of agro-food transnational corpor...
EP 04 The corporate food regime PT 3: Agri-food transnational corporations: supermarkets
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With 10 supermarkets controlling one-quarter of all of the value created in the world food system, supermarkets shape and structure the operation of t...
EP 04 The corporate food regime PT 2: Meatification
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the last 50 years the human diet has undergone the most profound shift in its history, as meat assumes an ever-greater role.
EP 04 The corporate food regime PT 1: Characteristics of the corporate food regime
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The contemporary world food system has been labelled by many observers as the “corporate food regime”. By unpacking the key characteristics of the...
EP 03 Regulating food trade PT 4: NAFTA and the USMCA
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since 1994 the North American Free Trade Agreement has played a central role in governing the international trade of food and agricultural products be...
EP 03 Regulating food trade PT 3: The Agreement on Agriculture
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since 1995 the Agreement on Agriculture has played a crucial role in organizing the terms and conditions governing the international trade of food and...
EP 03 Regulating food trade PT 2: The World Trade Organization
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Agri-food commodity chains that operate across national borders are regulated by agreements monitored and enforced by the World Trade Organization.
EP 03 Regulating food trade PT 1: Agri-food commodity chains
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The world food system witnesses unprecedented flows of food and agricultural products across national frontiers. International food and agricultural t...
EP 02 Food Regimes PT 5: Foundations of the contemporary world food system
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the second food regime unravelled it set in motion a series of economic changes in the developing countries that laid the basis for the emergence o...
EP 02 Food Regimes PT 4: Impacts of the mercantile-industrial food regime
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The second food regime set in motion a number of fundamental changes in the global production and consumption of food that reverberate to this day.
EP 02 Food Regimes PT 3: The mercantile-industrial food regime
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Farm subsidies and food aid were pivotal in establishing the second food regime, which reconfigured food production and diets around the world.
EP 02 Food Regimes PT 2: The first food regime
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1870s a stable world food system emerged as farmers in the United States starting exporting their food surpluses to Europe.
EP 02 Food regimes PT 1: The emergence of a world food system
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A world food system started to emerge in the 19th century. In order to untangle the complexities that might be associated with trying to understand th...
EP 01 Food security or food sovereignty PT 6: The contradictions of the world food system
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, overnutrition and ample food supplies point to a series of failures in the capacity of the world to feed i...
EP 01 Food security or food sovereignty PT 5: Who are the world's food insecure?
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the common characteristics of those who are food insecure, and do these characteristics say anything about the state of the food system?
EP 01 Food security or food sovereignty PT 4: Do we grow enough food?
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If there is significant malnutrition in the world, is it because the world does not grow enough food?
EP 01 Food security or food sovereignty PT 3: What is malnutrition?
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Malnutrition is a far more complex idea than how we use the word in everyday life, and we need to better understand what it means if we are to grapple...
EP 01 Food security or food sovereignty PT 2: The first food regime
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1870s a stable world food system emerged as farmers in the United States starting exporting their food surpluses to Europe.
EP 01 Food security or food sovereignty PT 1: The intimate commodity
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us have enough to eat, and so if asked if we are “food secure” would have an implicit understanding of what the question meant. But the qu...