Geopolitics of
Food

Food Security Concepts and Practices

Means to achieve
food security

External food aid

Production

Technology and producitivity

Stable livelihoods

Self-sufficiency and autarky

Protectionism

Exchange

Trade

Economic access (e.g. foreign exchange); geopolitical environment

Economic, sociopolitical, physical access

Rights and entitlements

Sustainability and resilience

Governance

Agents

Local markets and civil society

Individuals, households, and communities

International actors (FAO, WFP)

States and state organizations

Transnational capital and corporations

Strategies

Neo-liberal marketization

Frameworks

Food Crises
and Insecurity

Slow onset

Drought

Chronic malnutrition

Rapid onset

Extreme weather events

Conflict

Market volatility

Global Food Crises
2007-08, 2010-11

Political instability

Vulnerability and Adaptation

Migration

Subtopic

Resource Competition

Structural Food Power

Food securitization and weaponization

Resource conflict

Interdependence

Political instability

Land-grabbing / land acquisitions

Human-centric

Distribution of (natural) endowments, power, vulnerability

Environmental Change

What we have

State-centric