Agribusiness Can Foster Global Cooperation and Security
Today’s world is a multi-polar and diverse one, in which different regions and civilizations are greatly empowered. This, in turn, dilutes the influence that individual nation-states have on the world stage. In this new global order, security remains a central challenge. Ensuring peace and progress in an increasingly unstable world is only achievable if governments and global actors work towards cooperation and in the interest of human security. However, technological advances and the appearance of non-state actors has destroyed old theoretical paradigms in which deterrence restrains traditional nation-states because they fear retaliation. Currently, individuals and small groups have the capacity to influence the global scenario. That is, to act and disappear without the possibility of any specific government being held directly accountable for such actions.
Agribusiness Can Foster Global Cooperation and Security
Given this scenario, the international community ought to adopt a grand strategy of cooperative security in the face of a globalized and multi-polar world. Throughout the world, numerous multilateral cooperation institutions such as the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Latin America’s Pacific Alliance, and the United Nations have yielded positive results. For example, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO has allowed for closer cooperation, enhanced security, and increased the trans-Atlantic dialogue amongst its membership. Likewise, ASEAN has worked to create a functional security network within its region, while significantly boosting trade and economic integration amongst its member states. By advancing, shaping, and sharing common norms as well as preventing and resolving conflicts (both domestic and international), these institutions have modestly advanced the construction of global peace and prosperity. Moreover, they have created stable and resilient regions with shared responsibilities related to security as well as dynamic and outward-looking trade blocs in an increasingly integrated and interdependent world.
Cooperative security and collective institutions like those already mentioned will continue to play a key role in global development and trade. Similarly, like-minded institutions of global reach will actively engage with civil society actors and non-governmental organizations. The existence of these institutions is of vital importance for a peaceful and prosperous tomorrow. Specifically, one of the key issues that they will have to tackle will be accelerated demographic growth and the need to increase agricultural production, while optimizing logistics and distribution infrastructure.
One way in which international cooperation can be advanced is through foreign investment in sustainable agricultural projects. Farmfolio’s CEO J. Dax Cooke has conceptualized agriculture into an innovative asset class and Farmfolio is capitalizing on opportunities within organic products geared towards both domestic and international markets. The agricultural asset class offered by Farmfolio represents a way for investors to diversify their portfolio and simultaneously contribute to sustainable development in North and South America. In order to foster global economic prosperity and sustainable development, international cooperation organizations should encourage socially and environmentally responsible projects within the agricultural sector. An industry pioneer, Farmfolio’s CEO J. Dax Cooke has created a new model for foreign investment and economic diversification in developing regions with boundless potential.