Food Security Politics and the Millennium Development Goals (original) (raw)

The paper examines the implications of the recent food crisis, particularly its connection to rising food prices and hunger, especially in the global South. It critiques the official responses to this crisis as overly market-oriented and argues that these strategies may exacerbate food insecurity rather than alleviate it, emphasizing the need to reassess agricultural practices and policies to cater to local communities' social and ecological contexts. The authors highlight that despite some progress towards the Millennium Development Goals regarding hunger alleviation, significant challenges remain, with an increasing number of undernourished populations due to economic and environmental strains.