Trading Out of the Global Food Crisis? The World Trade Organization and the 
Geopolitics of Food Security

Margulis, Matias

doi:10.1080/14650045.2014.920233

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Trading Out of the Global Food Crisis? The World Trade Organization and the Geopolitics of Food Security

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Margulis, Matias
Grenzüberschreitende Institutionenbildung, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;
Department of International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada;

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Margulis, M. (2014). Trading Out of the Global Food Crisis? The World Trade Organization and the Geopolitics of Food Security. Geopolitics, 19(2), 322-350. doi:10.1080/14650045.2014.920233.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-001A-0669-8

Abstract

The geopolitics of the Global Food Crisis and international trade has received limited scholarly attention, a significant omission given the major roles of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in structuring world food production and trade flows and as a principal inter-state governing mechanism of the global agro-food system. Analysing recent international policy actions framing the WTO as a ‘fix’ to the Global Food Crisis, this article points to the value of a critical geopolitics of agro-power sensitive to the spatial reconfiguration of production and power in the global agro-food system, problematising geospatial categories such as ‘North’ and ‘South’, and that takes seriously contests for control of geopolitical agents such as the WTO.