This chapter examines the unfolding global food crisis—the largest in modern history—as hunger now affects nearly 10% of the world’s population. This crisis is the product of intersecting challenges: warfare, climate change, and widening inequality, which expose fundamental vulnerabilities in the global food system and capitalism at large. Disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have spiked food prices, pushing millions into extreme poverty and highlighting the dangers of a food supply dominated by a few key producers and multinational corporations. The chapter critiques the industrial, corporate food regime, where financial speculation and market concentration by multinationals like ADM, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus have replaced traditional, localized food producers. It further explores how humanitarian aid policies and the introduction of genetically modified seeds have fostered dependency in the Global South, eroding local agricultural resilience. Additionally, the analysis connects food insecurity to geopolitical conflicts in regions like Sudan and Palestine, where hunger is weaponized amid political instability. Ultimately, the chapter calls for a reimagining of food systems—through regulation, localized production, and agrarian movements—to address the inherent inequities and environmental challenges threatening global food security.

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The Crisis of the Global Food System

  • Francesco Sylos Labini,
  • Matteo Caravani

摘要

This chapter examines the unfolding global food crisis—the largest in modern history—as hunger now affects nearly 10% of the world’s population. This crisis is the product of intersecting challenges: warfare, climate change, and widening inequality, which expose fundamental vulnerabilities in the global food system and capitalism at large. Disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have spiked food prices, pushing millions into extreme poverty and highlighting the dangers of a food supply dominated by a few key producers and multinational corporations. The chapter critiques the industrial, corporate food regime, where financial speculation and market concentration by multinationals like ADM, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus have replaced traditional, localized food producers. It further explores how humanitarian aid policies and the introduction of genetically modified seeds have fostered dependency in the Global South, eroding local agricultural resilience. Additionally, the analysis connects food insecurity to geopolitical conflicts in regions like Sudan and Palestine, where hunger is weaponized amid political instability. Ultimately, the chapter calls for a reimagining of food systems—through regulation, localized production, and agrarian movements—to address the inherent inequities and environmental challenges threatening global food security.