Changes underway involve rapid urbanization, intensification of animal production, modernization of food marketing systems and changes in food consumption habits.
The bipartisan School Food Modernization Act, pending in both chambers of Congress, would address these obstacles to healthy, efficient meal programs.
They also reveal contrasting food-system paradigms: further agricultural modernization, export competition, and food-import dependence versus an alternative vision of revitalized rural life, farmers' rights, and national food sovereignty.
We are just now beginning the dialogue on food standards modernization; this is the starting point, not the finish line!
With the modernization of global agri-food systems, the role of contract farming increases.
The House of Representatives gave final approval on Tuesday to a long-awaited modernization of the nation's food safety laws, voting 215 to 144 to grant the Food and Drug Administration greater authority over food production.
Modernization could also help reduce food losses by helping India process more of its fruits and vegetables: Currently it processes only about 2 percent of production, compared with 30 percent in Thailand and 80 percent in Malaysia.
Increased reliance on imported foods rather than traditional foods is also associated with modernization [ 7, 13].
The public outcry helped lead to the inclusion of animal food in the Food Safety and Modernization Act, a landmark food safety bill, which passed with broad support in 2010 and was the first major overhaul of the Food and Drug Administration's food safety laws since the 1930s.
The Progressives of the early 20th had an amazing run — direct elections of senators, regulation of monopolistic trusts, modernization of public schools, cleaning up the food supply — with only one major blooper: Prohibition.
