Fecha de publicación: 01/01/2025 Fuente: Food sciences and nutrition Abstract
A spate of accelerating global food crises over the past 15 years has boosted the profile of food security as a site of world politics. Long a matter of economic concern, food security has become a subject for geopolitical calculation and strategy, albeit in ways that tangle with and reflect back on global economic markets, supply chains, and trade. This chapter outlines a geopolitical economy approach to understanding this shift, blending insights from international political economy with those from critical geopolitics to attend to both the material and discursive dimensions of contemporary global hunger. The chapter applies the geopolitical economy approach to understanding three recent global food crises associated with the 2007/2008 spike in food prices, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Russia’s war in Ukraine from 2022. Highlighting the diverse forms of political and economic power that bisect and shape global food security, the chapter engages recent debates around topics including agricultural self-sufficiency, the weaponization and securitization of food, food protectionism, and food diplomacy along the way.