ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) has influenced the agenda of global governance bodies. It examines the role of the BRICS as a collective actor in the realm of nontraditional security threats. Two areas of nontraditional security—water security and food security—were examined as case studies. Russia's increased engagement has pushed it to the fore in terms of developing the BRICS's collective identity in the area of global water security governance. In addition to economic and demographic drivers of water insecurity, climate change also will reduce the available water supply. The turning point in global food security governance came in 1964 with the establishment of the Group of 77. The declaration established modes of action—which focused on the production of grain and on the increase in the standard of living and the development of rural areas—that could be jointly pursued by the BRICS countries to achieve global food security.
