ABSTRACT
Populations can only grow when they have sufficient means to do so. This involves a plentiful supply of natural resources, food and water and the collective organisation and governance of its people. In this way, social evolution and collective ideology continually seek to reshape humanity for the better. This chapter aims to answer some basic questions of how the idea of food security emerged and under what contemporary conditions. This section also explores the growing international dimension of food and ultimately the multilateral nature of governance and responsibility. For much of this, events are explored chronologically so as to better inform the reader of contemporary motivational forces. Beginning with social collectivisation, the research then goes on to explore agriculture, science and technologies’ efforts to adapt to the growing needs of the population before looking at con¡ict, economic disparity and the growing food security gap and the subsequent introduction of global governance and humanitarianism.
