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Forum 2: Globalisation
Conference: Forum 2: Globalisation
Globalisation, Production Siting and Competitiveness

Folkhard Isermeyer, Federal Agricultural Research Centre, Braunschweig, Germany
Bruce Traill, Centre for Food Economics Research, The University of Reading, UK


The motivation for the geographical siting of livestock production in today's era of globalisation should be investigated. Many hypotheses have been produced on this subject. Some of these have been, in part, contradictory; nor is there consensus on the relative contradictory; nor is there consensus on the relative importance of the individual determinants when deciding future locations for livestock production. This project provides a forum for an exchange of interdisciplinary and international thinking and for the evolution of concepts for these questions and related issues. There is reason to believe that this approach can identify important reference points for social, political and economical negotiations on subjects ranging from consumer information to the creation of legal frameworks.

Goals of the scientific discourse
  • Definition of trends in animal production through increasing liberalisation of world trade: Will sites with low production costs be preferred on the whole? Or will animal production be carried out nearer the consumer population centres as a result of traditional consumer preference?
  • Research into the strategies of food production concerns and the resultant consequences for the future siting of animal production enterprises
  • The influences of federal and regional laws (environmental, animal welfare, planning permission) on future animal production sites
  • Reaction of the major world production areas to a further increase in demand for added-value food (expansion potential, changes in production systems)