Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global RestructuringDavid Goodman, Michael Watts 4e de couv.: Big Macs, chickens, green beans and strawberries. In an increasingly global world, societies are being provisioned from a bewildering array of sources as new countries and new food commodities are drawn into international markets. The history of agricultural commodities - sugar, coffee, grains - is both long and international in character. But how are contemporary processes of global integration transforming the organisation of agro-food systems and how are these world-scale forces mediated and resisted "on the ground" at the local level? Globalising Food provides an innovative contribution to the area of political economy of agriculture, food and consumption through a revealing investigation of the globalisation and restructuring of localised agricultural sectors and food systems. Drawing on new theoretical perspectives and wide-ranging case studies from Britain, the United States, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Latin America, key themes are addressed, ranging from giant multinational food corporations, rural industrialisation and World Bank policies, to the regulation of pollution, labour relations, urban food politics and environmental sustainability. Leading international experts draw on recent social-theoretic contributions in geography, sociology, economics and political economy to assess the importance and scale of the new global forces at work - forces which are reshaping agricultural production, rural societies and food consumption. With the integration of new agricultural countries, new commodities and actors into a global agro-food networks, Globalising Food offers important insights into the problems, consequences and limits of the industrialization of agriculture and the provisioning of food in a global world as we approach the new millenium |
Contents
Global Appetite Local Metabolism Nature Culture and Industry in FindeSiecle AgroFood Systems | 1 |
Institutions Embeddedness and Agrarian Trajectories | 24 |
Restructuring Industry and Regional Dynamics | 85 |
Globalisation Value and Regulation in the Commodity System | 121 |
Discourse and Class Networks and Accumulation | 172 |
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Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring David Goodman,Michael Watts Limited preview - 1997 |
Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring David Goodman,Michael Watts Limited preview - 2013 |
Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring David Goodman,Michael Watts Limited preview - 1997 |
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