What's For Dinner?

Max Spoor chairs the Department of Agrarian and Environmental Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (part of Erasmus University Rotterdam). Max specializes in economies in transition. He describes the motivations of consumers and the predicament of small food producers who together make up the massive food sovereignty movement around the globe. He sees national and international policy initiatives pushing small food producers into global supply chains, resulting in a tenuous hold on their livelihoods, since the great majority cannot now cover costs of production for their principal crops. Max has recently been involved in institutional capacity-building projects in China, Kazakhstan and Vietnam and consultancy missions in nearly a dozen developing countries.