The corporate food regime’s status quo offers a food system that harms people, cultures, other life forms, and the Earth. According to most researchers and the actual experience of affected people, meeting the challenges of world hunger depends upon increasing local food production in the Global South to feed the hungry within their countries. These countries already have a high dependence on agriculture for employment and income. Nations committing to self-sufficiency through domestic production would feed the hungry and increase the economic viability of growers. This option requires the breakup of large corporate farms that now grow for the Western market and the return of the land to the growers from which the land was taken.
Corporations do not feed the hungry. They ensure their continuing economic growth and profits by promoting the ever greater transition to the Western diet to those who can afford to pay its price.
