ABSTRACT
The growing push towards industrial agriculture and globalization – with an emphasis on export crops and transgenic crops, and the rapid expansion of biofuel crops (oil palm, sugarcane, maize, soybean, eucalyptus etc.) and land acquisition and grabbing – is increasingly reshaping the world’s agriculture and food supply, with potentially severe economic, social and ecological impacts and risks, particularly for poor developing countries. Such reshaping is occurring in the midst of a changing climate expected to have large and far-reaching effects on the agriculture sector and on crop productivity, predominantly in tropical and arid zones of developing countries (Altieri and Nicholls, 2012).
