industrial food

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In many countries, people are resisting agrarian and trade policies that boost the power of the multinationals. Individual companies also come in for criticism.

Four Western corporations dominate the global trade of agricultural products. Now a Chinese firm has joined them.

In the coming years, seed companies plan to use genome editing to produce crops with new characteristics – and market them without having to state that they are "genetically modified".

Industry says it can feed the world. But total food production is not the issue; access to food is. The key solution is to fight poverty.

Agroecology is a successful concept which promotes farming methods that are attuned to local ecosystems. It is already used for growing rice worldwide.