Food security is defined as having sufficient access to food in order to maintain a healthy life. The mainstream approach to ensuring sufficient food and nutrition security is focused on production and consumption. New research shows that food security research and action need to emphasise distribution and retail in addition to agricultural production.

Företag med modern teknik, till exempel för att rena vatten, kan kontrollera och forma vad som uppfattas som sanningen om vatten i byar på landsbygden på södra halvklotet. Det här leder till att de blir beroende av privata företag gällande vattenförsörjningen, konstaterar Yewondwossen Tesfaye i sin doktorsavhandling ”Neoliberalism in everyday governmentality: The conduct of rural drinkwater and rainwater practices”.

This year the conference is arranged in a unique collaboration between Hanken and the National Defence University on 20-21 August 2015.

Companies equipped with modern technology, such as with the capability to purify water, can control and shape what is understood as the truth about water in rural villages in the global South. Through this, rural villages are made dependent on private companies related to water supply, Yewondwossen Tesfaye states in his doctoral dissertation “Neoliberalism in everyday governmentality: The conduct of rural drinking water and rainwater practices”.