Food Security for People

摘要

Asia today has many of the world's fastest growing economies, each competing for markets and investments by offering lower wages and working standards and providing the most attractive subsidized infrastructure. One consequence of the rush to integrate into the global economy is a drastic reorientation of agricultural priorities as basic food crops are phased out to devote lands to higher-value export products. The consequences are ominous: endangered food security, a degraded environment, uprooted rural communities, and greater dependence of the poor on the market for their survival.