The world's agrifood systems have been transformed by a process of globalization in which ever-closer functional integration of the world's economies has occurred, supported by the Internet, the rise of transnational corporations, and the removal of many barriers to trade and investment. This review outlines the key characteristics of globalization and then details the changes occurring to agriculture and the broader agrifood system. It addresses the worldwide spread of productivist, specialized, industrial-style farming methods and their consequences, both positive and negative. The review focuses on three key issues: the world's capability to produce enough food to feed humankind; the important roles played in shaping globalization by transnational corporations, global finance, and government policies; and the emerging challenges to globalization. The first of these addresses the current debate regarding whether it is possible to maintain ecological diversity while producing sufficient food to feed the world. The other issue acknowledges that outcomes of global processes are spatially uneven and strongly contested by forms of agriculture antithetical to the homogenized, capitalist, neoliberal model associated with globalization.

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农业全球化

在互联网的支持下，跨国公司的兴起以及许多贸易和投资壁垒的消除，世界经济的功能整合日益紧密，全球化进程改变了世界农业食品系统。本综述概述了全球化的主要特征，然后详细介绍了农业和更广泛的农业食品系统发生的变化。它解决了生产主义、专业化、工业式耕作方法的全球传播及其积极和消极的后果。审查重点关注三个关键问题：世界生产足够食物供人类食用的能力；跨国公司、全球金融和政府政策在塑造全球化方面发挥的重要作用；以及全球化面临的新挑战。第一个解决了当前关于是否有可能在生产足够的食物来养活世界的同时保持生态多样性的争论。另一个问题承认，全球进程的结果在空间上是不均衡的，并且受到与全球化相关的同质化、资本主义、新自由主义模式对立的农业形式的强烈竞争。