Goodman and Redclift argue that at the beginning of the twenty-first century we are witnessing an increasingly global organization of food provision and access to food, with transnational corporations playing the major role. This has been based on the incorporation of local systems of food production into a global system of food production. In other words, local subsistence producers, who have traditionally produced to meet the needs of their family and community, may now be involved in cash-crop production for a distant market. Alternatively, they may have left the land and become involved in the process of industrialization, making them net consumers rather than producers of food in the move to urbanization