Cross-Continental Agro-Food Chains : Structures, Actors and Dynamics in the Global Food System

ISBN-13: 9780415337939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 304 str.

Niels Fold; Bill Pritchard

Opis

We live in a world of global food. The daily meals of people in both the developed and developing worlds are being transformed by the increasing ease with which food is being traded across continents. Affluent consumers' supermarket trolleys increasingly are being filled with an array of food products from developing countries while, at the same time, food exports from the developed world are supplanting and transforming dietary systems in developing countries. Some experts suggest that the enhanced tradability of food ushers in an era of increasing choice and affluence. Others point to problems of dependency, inequality and social dislocation accompanying these developments.
Cross-continental Food Systems represents a collective effort to document and understand these issues. Containing the contributions of twenty-six leading international social scientists from eleven countries, the book presents recent case study research on how and why the food system is being globalized, and what this means for people and communities in different parts of the world. The book covers debates on new structures and food products, as well as detailed accounts of fresh horticulture, tropical crops and livestock.
This book fills a major gap in contemporary scholarship on food and globalization. Its emphasis on case study accounts of the connections between trade and restructuring provides texture and context to these complex and important debates. Written and researched at a time in which national governments are seeking to negotiate new rules of global agricultural trade, this book is timely and relevant. It will interest researchers in geography, development studies, agricultural economicsand political science, as well as professionals in the fields of trade and food policy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Part 1: 2. The Geography of North / South Food Trade 3. The Role of Supply Chain Partnerships in Development 4. Supermarket Development in the Developing World 5. Standards, Quality and Market Access 6. Trading on Health 7. Transgenic Crops in Agriculture World Markets 8. Organic Production in the Third Food Regime Part 2: 9. Agrifood Globalization and Commodity Chains 10. The Globalized Fruiti-Culture System 11. Regionalization and Globalization in an Agri-Food Value Chain 12. Regional Cultures and Global Sourcing of Fresh Asparagus Part 3: 13. Supermarkets to Asia and Banana Wars 14. Globalization and Changing Banana Commodity Chains 15. Construction and Consumption of Place along a Coffee Commodity Network from Toraja to Tokyo 16. Dynamics of Global Sourcing Patterns for Cocoa 17. Global Wheat and Local Insecurity Part 4: 18. Production, Consumption and Exports of Poultry Products 19. The Cross-Pacific Chicken: How tourism impacts upon commodity chains 20. Milking the Region 21. The World Steer Revisited

O autorze

Niels Fold, Bill Pritchard