The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems Contributor(s): McMichael, Philip D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0801429404 ISBN-13: 9780801429408 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1994 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - General - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - General - Social Science | Sociology - Rural |
Dewey: 338.19 |
LCCN: 93-48160 |
Series: Food Systems and Agrarian Change |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.35 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Across the world, food systems and agricultural systems are changing at a phenomenal rate. Widespread restructuring has not been confined to the production and distribution of food, though; many regions and even nations are undergoing social, political, and economic transformation as well. Bringing together twelve essays by scholars from a number of disciplines, I this timely book documents the interdependence of food systems, nation states, and the world economy. Stressing the political foundations of global agro-food systems, it sheds light on such complex questions as whether today's changes in food and agrarian systems anticipate a new world order, or are merely efforts to preserve an old order in crisis. |
Contributor Bio(s): McMichael, Philip D.: - Philip D. McMichael is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Director of the International Political Economy Program at Cornell University. |