ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the food price riots of 2007-2008 to conduct an exploration in time and in space of how our food provision is ensured today. It has reviewed the dominant corporate-led global food system and the multiple ways in which it visits negative impacts on society and the environment. Global governance does internationally what states do at home with the notable exception of the lack of enforcement authority. The chapter documents the contrast between the increase in export of baby formula from New Zealand to China, where marketing has few restrictions and breastfeeding rates are falling, and India where marketing is regulated and sales are static. It includes agro-ecological approaches to food production, nested markets, and peasant initiatives to save their seeds. The human rights (HR) framework is a major reference point for alternative accountability discourse that seeks to get to structural issues and political responsibility.
