ABSTRACT
In the preceding pages we sought to clarify the origin and implications of the food rush and the era which we termed that of new scarcity.
Consumption grows and changes, while the availability of natural resources is increasingly constrained. Focusing on the case of land, we have seen how its scarcity even pushes states to consider the purchase of land beyond their borders with controversial implications, especially for developing countries, which end up giving up pieces of their most fertile land at bargain prices. The new restrictions on the use of basic resources like water and the need to make farming more environmentally sustainable paint a picture that is not encouraging in terms of food production, the colours of which are rendered even more dismal by the predicted effects of climate change which is destined to raise many more vulnerabilities in the food supply system.
