The meat of the global food crisis

By T. Weis. 2013

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Sacred groves, sacrifice zones and soy production: globalization, intensification and neo-nature in South America (2016, background): “…are extremely inefficient forms of producing protein for human food, and soy-based biodiesel is only carbon efficient when produced in small-scale diversified farming systems (Cavalett and Ortega 2010; Oliveira and Schneider 2015; Schneider 2014; Steinfeld et al. 2006; Weis 2010, 2013a, 2013b).”
Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains (2014, background): “Goldman Sachs, for instance, has bet that the ‘meatification’ (Weis 2013) of Chinese diets will increase the profitability of the country’s poultry sector.”
Peasant-driven agricultural growth and food sovereignty (2014, background): “…linked to the current organization of agricultural production at global scale is the abandonment of meadows and pasturelands for extensive grazing in hills and mountains coupled with the use of fertile arable land to produce grains for fattening cattle, concentrated in large feed-lots (Weis, 2013).”