An Asian Way to Safeguard Food Security: Transnational Farmland Investment

• Published in: Asian perspective Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 481 - 518
• Main Author: Lin, Scott Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Seoul Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc 01.07.2017; 경남대학교 극동문제연구소; Johns Hopkins University Press; 극동문제연구소
• Subjects: Agricultural land; Agricultural production; Agriculture; Cooperation; Food quality; Food safety; Food security; Food supply; Globalization; Governance; Hall, Ian; Investments; Investors; Land use; National security; Neocolonialism; Personal safety; Production capacity; R&D; Research & development; SECURITY IN EAST ASIA; Supply; Supply & demand; Supply chains; Transnationalism; Urbanization; 정치외교학; Middle East; South Korea; Southeast Asia; Asia; China; Japan; Ukraine; East Asia; India; food safety; developmental state; Asia; transnational farmland investment; food security
• ISSN: 0258-9184; 2288-2871; 2288-2871
• DOI: 10.1353/apr.2017.0022

During the twenty-first century's wave of transnational farmland investment, Asian countries contributed to about half of the investment I therefore address the following major questions What is the food security situation across Asian countries? Wh are the factors that drive Asian countries to join the transnation al farmland investment movement? I argue that the following four factors give rise to the security problems in the food suppl chain of Asian countries: (1) the developmental state model tha leads Asian countries to sacrifice agriculture in their home cou tries; (2) the increases in food demand resulting from accelerate urbanization; (3) an unstable food supply chain causing Asian countries to seek reliable bases of food supply; and (4) food saf ty concerns that drive Asia to look for better quality farmlands Today, as transnational farmland investment has become one of the models to maintain Asian countries' food security, this Asia model is also challenging contemporary global food security gov ernance dominated by Western countries. The changes that it will effect over the course of this arduous process will also inform and shape future research within academia.