The impact of globalisation, free trade and technology on food and nutrition in the new millennium

The millennium promises a dramatic politicisation of the food question. In addition to the prominent issues of food security, hunger and nutrition, bi oengineering, food safety and quality. there are related issues of environm ental sustainability, power, sovereignty and rights. All these issues are d eeply implicated in the current corporate form of globalisation, which is t ransforming historic global arrangements by subordinating public institutio ns and the question of food security to private solutions. The present pape r questions the self-evident association between globalisation and nutritio nal improvement.