POLS 196 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Saturated Fat, Vegetable Oil, Green Economy
23 Apr 2020
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Food movements in the global south part 2. Flex crops/commodities: crops with multiple uses that can be, or are thought to be, flexibly interchanged: food, feed, fuel and industrial material. This is an aspect of substitutionism in the bioindustrialization of agricultural commodities. Palm oil as a flex crop has three major and interconnected drivers: (1) the accumulation imperative (2) green economic paradigm (3) changes towards a multipolar global food and agrocommodity regime. Flex crop expansion: accumulation imperative: it is likely that consumers use the varied functions of flex crops multiple times a day, making it a golden crop for investors. Investors gain rapid expansion worldwide, especially in middle income countries. Brics and mics are becoming major producers and consumers of flex crops, as well as mega hubs for their trade. Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the pulp of the fruit of oil palms: use of palm oil as a concern for environmental reasons:
