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30 lis 2016 · Long-distance agricultural trade has contributed to global economic growth and poverty reduction for millennia, but only in recent centuries via international trade in major foods. Its predominant contribution in earlier periods was through trade in crop seeds or...
2 lis 2021 · Global food trade is an integral part of the food system, and plays an important role in food security. Based on complex network analyses, this paper analyzed the global food trade network (FTN) and its evolution from 1992 to 2018.
Trade underwent dramatic changes in the 20th century as a result of the two world wars. The war-associated food shortages, economic crises, and disease spread set the stage for global trade agreements and organizations designed to address global public good issues.
World histories increasingly point to trade, to human migrations, and to media as the mechanisms by which particular foods, food practices, food technologies, and food knowledge travel across space, time, and cultural boundaries to become general.
Sample Essay 3. In today’s globalized world, supermarkets offer access to foods from across the globe, giving consumers the ability to buy exotic fruits, specialty ingredients, and international products with ease. While this development enhances consumer choice and promotes cultural exchange, it also raises concerns about sustainability.
In her work on food and globalization, anthropologist and food studies specialist Lynne Phillips points out the “crooked pathways” (2006, 38) that food takes to become a global commodity. Increasingly affected by transnational corporations, food today is marketed for endlessly higher profits.
1 sty 2020 · This entry highlights the historicity of food commodity market, tracing its development from the early forms of markets, in Mesopotamia, to the more recent configuration dominated by international commodity exchanges, such as the Chicago Stock Exchange.
