Food Security #11
Food Security, Eleventh presentation in the lecture series: ‘Self Determination in the Post Colonial World’, by Dr Tim Anderson, 2021. Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJO1_8eDGI0
Agricultural liberalisation and its ‘high risks’ for food security (2011)
Agricultural liberalisation has played an important part in preparing the ground for the sustained food crisis we face. The WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture helped increase food trade, but did not alleviate global hunger. Then, with strong food price rises, global […]
Globalization and agricultural trade: The market access and food security dilemmas of developing countries (2006)
Poverty reduction and debt relief programs, fixed by the big powers, have repeated the dogma of globalisation through ‘free trade’ as a means of salvation for poor countries. The Cairns Group, an agricultural export lobby, has reinforced this message in […]
Food security and agriculture in the Australia-East Timor relationship (2006)
This chapter will discuss important conflicts of interest over agricultural development in the Australia-East Timor relationship. East Timor needs to stabilise domestic production, as the central element of its food security strategy. However Australia has a strategic view of global […]