The Global Governance of Food
Sara R Curran editor April Linton editor Abigail Cooke editor Andrew Schrank editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:7th Jul '10
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Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st century. While food is intimately and fundamentally related to ecological and human well-being, food products now travel far flung trade routes to reach us. International trade in food has tripled in value and quadrupled in volume since 1960 and tracing the production, movement, transformation, and consumption of food necessitates research that situates localities within global networks and facilitates our capacity to "see the trees and the forest" by zooming from the global to the local and back to the global.
Our need for food is a constant; how we acquire food is a variable; and the production, commercialization, and consumption of food therefore offer an invaluable window onto the globalization of the world we inhabit. Food provides an ideal site for answering the fundamental questions of governance of central concern to globalization debates. This book presents recent and interdisciplinary scholarship about the variety of mechanisms governing global food systems and their impacts on human and environmental well-being
This book was previously published as a special issue of Globalizations
ISBN: 9780415590853
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 380g
226 pages