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Food, Globalization and Sustainability
Peter Oosterveer and David A. Sonnenfeld
London and New York: Earthlink/ Routledge, 2012
Hardback: ISBN 978-1-84971-260-6
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-84971-261-3
Food is increasingly traded internationally,
thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption
globally. Distance between food producers and consumers is increasing
and new concerns, such as environmental impact and animal welfare,
are arising. This book provides an overview of the principal conceptual
frameworks that have been developed for understanding these changes. It
shows how conventional regulation of food provision through sovereign
national governments is becoming elusive, at the same time as
multinational companies put serious limits to governmental
interventions. In this context, other social actors including food
retailers and NGOs are shown to take up innovative roles in governing
food provision, but their contribution to agro-food sustainability is
under continuous scrutiny. The authors apply these themes in several
detailed case studies, including organic, fair trade, local food and
fish. On the basis of these cases, future developments are explored,
with a focus on the respective roles of agricultural producers,
retailers and consumers. Keywords:
social theory, environmental policy, global networks and flows,
alternative agri-food networks, urban agriculture, food policy
A textbook designed for courses in: Sociology; Environmental
Studies; Agriculture and Food Studies; Politics, Governance and Law;
Human Geography; Economics; and other
fields
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