Global Food Equity (Enhanced DVD)

At the turn of 21^st century, food crisis accompanying inflationary policies and supply-side shortages prompted governments around the world agreed to establish more effective policies for agricultural subsidies and for food relief appeared like a utopian promise on the horizon. What has followed since the global economic crisis of 2008, has been a veritable dystopia say agricultural economists. The opposite scenario serves as the more likely scenario. Prediction of a global population of 9 billion by 2050 indicates that adequate food equity policies has are imperative, yet assurance that food security will be realized is not likely unless trade barriers such as dumping of lower than market priced domestic imports ceases.

Financiers investing in farmland look for the highest profit margin possible. Agricultural production requires high grade land, however, so the inputs to increase the quality of low grade land so as to induce higher yield crops is always risk. Emerging markets offer some of the best opportunities for high productivity gains for investors. If one considers that farm gates have traditionally been separate from capital markets due to family ownership in OECD countries, the fact is that those barriers are also loosening as younger members of family owned farms move away from managing those enterprises.  The program looks at the food equity question from the perspective of the global marketplace, and suggests that international agreement about the complexities of issues such as land value, GMO crop policies, and pricing structures must be brought to the table for shortages to be corrected. 

Global Food Equity

• DVD
• ISBN 978-1-62290-046-6
• Run Time (20 Minutes)
• Copyright 2012
• Closed Captioned (CC)