Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415162521 ISBN 13: 9780415162524

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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David Goodman, Michael Watts

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415162521
• ISBN 13: 9780415162524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Goodman David, Watts Michael