ABSTRACT
The economic and geopolitical interests behind this global food system, have been buttressed by rhetoric touting the 'modernization' of agriculture, free markets, and technological innovation, and stigmatizing as archaic relics the peasant and family farming systems that now lay claim to most of the world's agricultural land. The impacts of land grabbing in terms of dispossession of small-scale producers and the disruption of their food production role are significant, particularly since the amounts of land being leased or sold in food insecure countries are high. Investing in agriculture has been at the top of the agenda of the reformed Committee on World Food Security (CFS) since its first session in October 2010. The civil society and social movements, backed up by academics and technically qualified NGO allies, have done a good deal of work on modes of production, opposing agro-ecological approaches to industrial monoculture agriculture.
