GEOG 130 Lecture Notes - High Fructose Corn Syrup, Uruguay Round, Rockefeller Foundation
Document Summary
Replacement of crops grown in tropical regions to those grown in temperate regions (substitution of cane/beet sugar for high fructose corn syrup) Increased volatility in prices in sugar market. Less exports for global south but new market for inputs. High meat consumption = industrial meat production. Global sourcing: rise of the feedstuffs industry, connected by transnational corporations to specialized crop farmers. Competition between humans and animals for food (and increasingly, biofuels. Movement from national to global sourcing: flexible strategy used by transnational corporations to secure predictable supplies/inputs. Insurance/flexibility to grain access (increased movement to needed areas) More benefit to corporations than to individual farmers. Tendency toward distance and durability & profits for small set of transnational corporations in all three complexes. Farms adapt production based on demand for raw materials by transnational corporations (not the world market") = pushed on technological treadmill. To meet quality standards, buy inputs from same transnational corporations.
