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Task Description
Drawing on the literature, frameworks, arguments and concepts introduced in the first few weeks of
this subject, write an 1800 word essay addressing ONE of these topics.
1. In recent decades agri-food corporations have concentrated their market share and control of the
supply chains of many food commodities, both within and across sectors of national and global
food systems. Discuss the strategies and practices used by these corporations to increase their
market share/profitability, and to exercise power over producers and other corporations in the food
system.
2. Farmers and food producers have for many decades been subject to ongoing financial pressures
related to rising costs and flat or declining prices for their produce. Discuss the practices, policies
and dynamics of the food system that have contributed to the financial pressures faced by farmers
and food producers.
3. A common response to the ongoing problem of global food insecurity and malnutrition (and the
added pressures of future population growth) is to continue promoting the need for increased food
production. Tim Lang & David Barling refer to this as the ‘productionist’ agricultural solution (and
as the ‘grow more to feed more’ approach) to food insecurity, but they highlight the failures of this
approach to address the range of health, sustainability and equity issues associated with food
insecurity in the 21st century (See Lang & Barling, 2012, p.315). Discuss how increasing total food
production does not necessarily address the range of drivers and consequences of food insecurity
and malnutrition in all its forms.