| Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring Contributor(s): Goodman, David (Editor), Watts, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 041516253X ISBN-13: 9780415162531 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $63.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: Big Macs, chickens and cut flowers are commodities beginning to dominate the global agro-food system. Using case studies from the US, Britain, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Latin America, "Globalising Food" addresses the key themes that are transforming the character of the traditional agricultural communities, ranging from multinational food corporations and World Bank policies, to regulation of pollution and labor relations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Business & Economics | International - General - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - General |
| Dewey: 338.1 |
| LCCN: 97-9254 |
| Lexile Measure: 1590 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.16" W x 9.2" (1.36 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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. The book draws on new theoretical perspectives and wide-ranging case studies from Britain, the USA, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Latin America. The key themes addresses range from giant multinational food corporations, rural industrialisation and World Bank policies, to the regulation of pollution, labour relations, urban food politics and environmental sustainability. Globalising Food offers important insights into the problems, consequences and limits of the industrialisation of agriculture and the provisioning of food in a global world as we approach the new millenium. |