ABSTRACT
The new scenario involves an alteration in the global balance of the food supply, a change that is proving problematic, not only for the parts of the world historically affected by famine and malnutrition, but also for new players in the global economy, for high-income economies and the food processing industry itself. In this part we are going to try to identify a set of phenomena that highlight the potentially disruptive effects of this scarcity, not trying to create panic, but to show that the issue of food security, rather than belonging to a hypothetical future, is already infl uencing our present, raising doubts over our capacity for refl ection and action and setting us challenges that need urgent and adequate responses.
