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The Effect Of U.S.Multinational Agricultural Companies To China’s Food Security

Posted on:2016-03-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2309330470461104Subject:International politics
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After the Cold War, the world has entered into a period of relative peace and security in the period, the weakening of traditional security threats. Traditional security threats and non-traditional security threats intricately intertwined, increasingly prominent non-traditional threats to security, peace and stability in the world, the state national security presents a new challenge. April 1983, "Food security" concept in the FAO Committee on Food Security was adopted and widely international organizations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Council, such as the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the international community endorsement and support. One aspect of food security as a non-traditional security threats, it is not just the problem of agricultural economy, has become a global political issues, social issues, related to the security and stability of countries around the world and around the world.In the context of the global food trade, transnational capital, food supply, price manipulation, so that food is not just a resource, it is also an economic capital of the country is more a political and diplomatic strategic weapons. In the US global strategy, multinational agricultural companies to become a strategic tool for the United States to implement food. Monsanto, DuPont, USA Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill is currently the nation’s largest four multinational agricultural companies. They are in the development and application of transgenic technology, international trade in food, seed development and other aspects of the formation of oligopolies, and took control from the production and processing of agricultural products to the transportation, sales of all aspects, and ultimately the global distribution of the company’s development strategy. In the US global strategy, multinational agricultural companies gradually realized cooperate with the government. Every multinational agricultural companies have government background, but also supporting national policy support, relying on these policies, capital, technology, market and other means to implement US food strategy. US government to achieve these multinationals threat control objectives in other countries, the global delivery of US hegemony.December 2013, the Central Economic Work Conference held in Beijing, at the proposed main tasks for economic work in 2014, food security was first raised to the height of the "national strategy", and "effective protection of national food security" became in 2014 the economy The main task of the work. In this context, highlight and emphasize agriculture and food security is essential to national security building a whole new era of China is a necessary complement. Transnational agricultural companies to China’s food security should not be overlooked, is based multinational economic and political double its own property is becoming one of the important bilateral relations in the joints. China’s food security, there is a big risk, and there is a big gap between the United States and food security strategy. American multinational agricultural companies continue to accelerate the pace of development in China, it makes the Chinese government to fully understand the development of multinationals has two sides, how to achieve the rational use of multinational agricultural companies, maintaining a stable food prices in the domestic market, the better to promote economic development, while avoiding some of the damage multinational agricultural companies to the interests of our country, it would be worth exploring an important issue, but also China’s active participation in international affairs to better play a significant role in China’s political economy in the world is an important aspect. In this paper, in order to interpret the influence of American multinational agricultural companies to China’s food security, combined with the food security status of China, the United States proposed to deal with multinational agricultural companies threaten China’s food security approach and measures.
Keywords/Search Tags:American multinational agricultural companies, food security, food strategy, non-traditional security, non-state actors
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