초국적 농식품체계와 먹거리 위기

Abstract

Global food system is the structural arrangements of food production which are produced and consumed. But global food system does not just means the spatial range of production and consumption of food. Global food system is dominated by transnational agri-business corporations and they control the nature and life of living creatures through the science and technology. The food is transformed into commodity for the profit of transnational corporations. The science and technology transform from food system which adapts the nature and utilizes the natural productivity to food system which manipulates and transforms the nature. The sustainability of food production and the satefy of food is threatened. Green revolution transform self-sufficient and ecological agriculture into agro-chemical and petroleum dependant agriculture. The development of highly responsible seed to chemical fertilizer was the main cause to the change of agriculture dependant to agribusiness. Biotechnology maximize the industrialization of agriculture, that is agribusiness-dependant agriculture, by the technology of seed manuplation. Chemical-Seed transnational corporations, like Monsanto and 'Crop Major' continue developing strategic partnership to control global food system. Global food system threaten the sustainabilty of food production system and the safety of food. Industrialization of agriculture accelerate monoculture and decreases the diversity of species. And unhealty food which is produced for the profit of transational agri-food conglomerates threaten human health and life. New food addictive and new genes which are intruded into food system by biotechnology increase the uncertainty of food safety. For solving the crisis of food, developing alternative and sustainable food system is urgent.