IFPRI Policy Seminar: The New Politics of Food and Farming

Farm lobbies remain as dominant as ever over policy within their own sectors in OECD countries, but in the realm of culture, the sophisticated elite that claim to speak for food safety, food quality, social justice, and the environment have put industrial farming squarely on the defensive. The resulting debate has produced few significant changes in rich countries, but global institutions have now brought this cultural debate somewhat prematurely into the politics of non-OECD countries as well.