Trade, Food Security, and Human Rights: The Rules for International Trade in Agricultural Products and the Evolving World Food Crisis
| By: | Chen, Ying, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781472437426 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472437440 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Most scholars attribute systemic causes of food insecurity to poverty, human overpopulation, lack of farmland, and expansion of biofuel programs. However, as Chen argues here, another significant factor has been overlooked. The current food insecurity is not absolute food shortage, since global food production still exceeds the need of the entire world population, but a problem of how to secure access to resources. Distorted agricultural trade undermines world food distribution, and uneven distribution impedes people