In the wake of recent food price spikes, plus growing demands for food in emerging Asia and for biofuels in Europe and the United States, governments are reexamining their strategies for dealing with both short-term and long-term food security concerns. This paper argues that long-run trends in...

The second decade of rapid globalization of the wine industry is assessed using a newly-published statistical compendium of global wine markets. A dozen observations are made from those data offer insights into key new opportunities and challenges associated with recent globalization forces. A...