Food and Development

 Introduction: food, politics and power

Learning outcomes

At the end of this chapter, the reader should be able to evaluate the following:

•  The global food crisis: symptoms

•  Proximate causes of the global food crisis

•  Structural problems of the global food crisis

•  Contrasting solutions to the food crisis

•  Core concepts: food security, entitlements and food sovereignty

•  Politics and food in the past and present

•  Scales of analysis and the food crisis

Key concepts

Global food crisis; proximate and structural causes; food security; entitlements; food sovereignty; the politics of food

Introduction

This introductory chapter establishes ...