International cooperation for food security: Finding a way forward

A central topic of concern for the governments and peoples of the world is, understandably, food security.
Not every country can be largely self-sufficient. Each must, in varying degrees, rely on imports. The degree of food security for any country has can be assessed in terms of food availability, as well as affordability, quality and safety, and more recently, sustainability.
Food security has become a heightened 21st century concern. This is despite the fact that the green revolution should have made food shortages, and worse, famine, threats largely of the past. Still shaping government…