Trade Liberalization and Obstacles to Food Security: Toward a Sustainable Food Sovereignty
Trade Liberalization and Obstacles to Food Security: Toward a Sustainable Food Sovereignty
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贸易自由化和粮食安全的障碍：迈向可持续的粮食主权
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2011
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Peter Halewood
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Peter Halewood
2010年和2011年期间全球粮食价格的上涨被认为是最近中东地区政治起义和政权更迭的部分原因。2008年全球粮食价格飙升以及随之而来的世界各地的粮食骚乱使分析全球粮食生产、贸易和运输体系中潜在的结构性问题变得更加紧迫如果人口增长、气候变化、生物燃料生产、农产品贸易以及全球贸易不平衡持续或扩大，全球粮食不安全（饥饿）可能会再次增加。不幸的是，迄今为止，国际公认的食物权在遏制全球南方粮食不安全的浪潮方面相对无效。4本文确定并分析了贸易法中与粮食不安全有关的一些主要动态，并认为，虽然它不能取代食物权，但粮食主权的概念推动了对这些问题的讨论，无论是国内还是国际法律事务，同样重要的是，作为建立国内和国际政治联盟的工具。粮食主权可以团结起来反对和抵制全球资本对平等、市场和粮食本身的霸权建构。
Rising global food prices during 2010 and 2011 are thought to be partly responsible for the recent political uprisings and regime changes in the Middle East.1 The 2008 global spikes in food prices and the consequent food riots around the world lent additional urgency to analysis of underlying structural problems in the global system of producing, trading, and delivering food.2 Global food insecurity (hunger) is likely to increase again if population increase, climate change, biofuel production, agricultural com modity trading,3 and global trade imbalances persist or expand. Unfortunately, the internationally recognized human right to food has been to date relatively ineffective in stemming the tide of food insecurity in the Global South.4 This essay identifies and analyzes some of the major dynamics in trade law as they relate to food insecurity and argues that, while it does not replace the right to food, the concept of food sovereignty advances discussion of these issues both as domestic and international legal matters and, just as importantly, as a vehicle for building political coalition both domestically and transnationally. Food sovereignty can rally opposition and resistance to global capital's hegemonic construc tion of equality, markets, and food itself.