Global food and environmental security
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Written on: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 (12:54)
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registered since: 30.06.2008
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At http://www.stewardshipcommunity.com/index.php?id=203 Corrado Pirzio Biroli writes: “Food security is therefore at risk of becoming the next serious market failure after climate change….†and argues for reforming the political and economic structures within which the market operates suggesting in particular: “The market needs co-ordinated direction as to what kind of policies regarding soil use, energy, water, transportation, environment , and indeed agricultural and rural development, are the most appropriate ones to tackle the world’s overall socio-economic and political security requirements, foremost among them food in the developing countries.†What is your view about that? I take the author to mean that policies are devised to constrain and direct the market. If this is a reasonable understanding, I would like to know more about the detail of that; what sorts of issues would those policies need to address? Your comments welcome on the above and on any other aspect of the article “Global food and environmental security’ welcome here. Editor [This article was edited 2 times, at last 07.07.2008 at 14:29.] |
