Food Security, Agricultural Subsidies, Energy, and the Environment: A Process of ‘Glocalization’ in Sri Lanka

Patrick Mendis
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Patrick Mendis: University of Maryland University College at College Park, Maryland, USA

Energy & Environment, 2001, vol. 12, issue 1, 55-71

Abstract: This paper analyzes the interplay of policy dilemma in the areas of food security, agricultural subsidies, energy consumption, and the environment in the “glocalization†process of Sri Lanka. It demonstrates that the domestic agricultural and food sector is intricately interconnected with the global economy and world market forces. While this paper gives a primary focus on domestic rice production and wheat import policies, it further examines the environmental consequences and public health issues that are associated with the process of “glocalization†as part of globalization. This “glocalization†has led to a series of intended and unintended externalities for Sri Lanka whose economic integration is irreversibly linked to agricultural and subsidy policies of other food exporting and producing countries of Asia and the United States.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1260/0958305011500607

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