ABSTRACT
The establishment of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) was an institutional watershed so far as global interstate food governance was concerned. Situated within the emerging United Nations (UN) system, it was heralded as a contribution to building a better post-war society and guarding against another global conflict. The G77, numerically superior in the United Nations, championed a more equitable New International Economic Order (NIEO) of which the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the UN Center on transnational corporations were two of the institutional centerpieces. Neoliberalism advocates freer movement of goods, resources, and enterprises and reduction of the policy role of the state and its interventions in the economic sphere. The Green Revolution proved to be an effective means for exporting the industrial agricultural model to countries in Asia and Latin America and for seeking to contain agrarian unrest that might otherwise have taken a more revolutionary turn.
