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Global Food Crisis, Structural issues that undergird this issue:…
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Structural issues that undergird this issue: colonialism/coloniality: myth that in the 20th century the world was decolonized after WWII. No longer morally acceptable to behave this way. Colonialism already displaced indigenous lifeways and knowledges. Now the political relationship of colonialism no longer exists but the coloniality already exists. The power structures and hierarchies that were imbedded before still exist. They make up the international institutions that we know today. When colonialism ended it left vulnerable nations that had just declared independence. The former colonist powers begin to figure out how they're going to continue/secure their interests and the channel of resources from the south to the north. The World Bank is one example of this happening. Under the guise of facilitating better cooperation, they constructed institutions that reified the power structures of colonialism. The IMF and World Bank are structured to include people with power and money, and voting itself is even weighted depending on how much the states fund them. Those who are prepared to do that are the old rich north nations. These institutions are clearly designed in a way to promote the interests of some states over others, and in a way that very much matches what existed under colonialism.
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Why do these ideologies permeate within countries that are directly oppressed by them? Coloniality of knowledge explains this. Coloniality exported ideas and interrupted cultural propagation in many countries. They had the power This created gaps that these ideologies filled. "Civilizing" efforts were also made to destroy other knowledges. Political hierarchy also grew in many places. Considering food: Suppression of foodways and food systems and replacement with other structures. Development projects came into effect to modernize the world. The IMF and the World Bank supported the export of commodification of food. Structural adjustment programs were used to do this through opening their borders to international corporations that were able to come in and exploit them. The WTO and the AoA, which was made within it, included policies that allowed northern governments to subsidize their farmers while not allowing other countries to do this. This allowed the norths to flood the global market with food that drove small farmers out of business across the world. NAFTA did that too.
Capitalism was exported just like other ideas. As colonialism ground on it incorporated more and more places into the growing world capital system
Following WWII there were lots of left over technologies ( like chemicals) and infrastructures to create them. The Green Revolution was an attempt to repurpose these new technologies into agricultural uses. This produced chemical pesticides.
Land-grabbing is the largescale land acquisitions of land by large corporations. They can go into countries in the global south desperate for investment and buy up large swaths of land without the consent of peasant and indigenous peoples using and occupying these lands. Relevant as well is that climate change has created worries about feeding their populations. Some of the companies are just extensions of nation states buying up this land.