Resumen de Trading out of the global food crisis? the world trade organization and the geopolitics of food security

Matias E. Margulis

• The geopolitics of the Global Food Crisis and international trade has received limited scholarly attention, a significant omission given the major roles of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in structuring world food production and trade flows and as a principal inter-state governing mechanism of the global agro-food system. Analysing recent international policy actions framing the WTO as a �fix� to the Global Food Crisis, this article points to the value of a critical geopolitics of agro-power sensitive to the spatial reconfiguration of production and power in the global agro-food system, problematising geospatial categories such as �North� and �South�, and that takes seriously contests for control of geopolitical agents such as the WTO.