International Journal of Research in Social Sciences

  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 9

The geopolitics of Agro-Ecological Crisis: A case study of mozambique

  • Author:
  • Vivek Kumar Saurabh
  • Total Page Count: 18
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 440 to 457

Doctoral Candidate at Political Geography Division, Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Abstract

The article will begin with debate among agro-ecological farming and biotechnology based farming. The main focus of this article will be to explore the geopolitical manifestation of GMOs(Genetically Modified Organisms) and GM (Genetically Modified) food in contemporary world. The research paper will be scrutinizes the monopoly of western based corporate actors. The article will also appraise the AGRA, WEMA project and US aid policy in Africa, where Mozambique is also a partner. Many think tank suggested meat consumption and production has hugely responsible for produce more greenhouse gases than transportations. These facilitates agro-ecological crisis. Consequently, Unevenness in production and consumption is also an issue of geopolitics. Subsequently article portrayed changing geographies of meat production and consumption in contemporary world.

Keywords

Geopolitics, GMOs, GM Food, Meat Consumption