Food Security in the Context of a Global Food Crisis and the Rise of ”Food Powers” - Several Considerations
Food Security in the Context of a Global Food Crisis and the Rise of ”Food Powers” - Several Considerations

Author(s): Mădălina Virginia Antonescu
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Centrul tehnic-editorial al armatei
Keywords: food security; human security; global food crisis; climate change; Agenda 2030;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper we will try to analyse the concept of “food security” as part of national security,considering both Agenda 21, Agenda 2030 and the perspectives – already outlined in a recentUN report – on the global food crisis connected with the negative effects on environment,especially regarding the reduction of fertile surfaces and drinking water, due to the extensionof desertification, massive forest fires, chemical intensive agriculture, various aggressions,industrial exploitation or large-scale pollution with toxic or non-renewable waste of theenvironment. In the 21st century, it is possible to develop new concepts related to “power”,namely “green powers”, which are able to manage their relationship with the environment inorder to increase their political decision-making power and geopolitical importance in worlddecisions (including as “food powers”) as well as to provide increased protection and securityto their people. These “new powers” are those countries which, from now on, focus on thedevelopment of national, even regional agricultural industries, and on the protection of theirfertile areas as well as of their ownership over them, areas defined as “strategic areas”, inorder to ensure, from the surplus of food raw materials, a regional or even global influence, interms of sustainable development (post-realism).

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