Food Power

Food Power

1.Earl Butz, Secretary of State for Agriculture (under Nixon & Ford) observed: “...Food is a tool. it is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit”. Using this statement, describe the US policies of Food Aid and the Green Revolution and discuss how they reflected Butz' thinking for furthering US domination of the Global South

To all manifestations, the politics of food crisis blasted in 1973 and 1974 as worldwide agricultural was shaken by quick prices of food and fertilizer in the West and by starvations in Asia and Africa, while farming took the central focus of international political problems ...