Global Food Production

Abstract

This chapter introduces the dominant features of the global food system, highlighting that the dominant dynamics of global agricultural production have been one of the key drivers of the Anthropocene. Then, the chapter examines several alternative dynamics in the global food system that challenge its dominant logic. The chapter explains the concepts of food security, food justice and food sovereignty and presents the global social movements behind the concepts of food justice and food sovereignty. It introduces Brazil’s Zero Hunger strategy, which reshaped the global approach to food insecurity and hunger. And it illustrates how the reformed Committee on World Food Security has inspired more democratic, inclusive and ecological food governance at the global level.