ABSTRACT
This research anthology explores the concept of food production and supply, from farm gate to plate, bringing together contemporary thinking and research on local, national, and global issues from a stakeholder perspective.
A Stakeholder Approach to Managing Food includes a number of sections to represent these challenges, opportunities, conflicts, and cohesions affecting relevant stakeholder groups within food production and supply and their reaction to, engagement with, and co-creation of the food environment. For some, local, national, and global interests may seem at odds. We are in an era of growing and pervasive multi-national corporations, and these corporations have significant influence at all levels. Rapidly growing economies such as China are a focus for the global brand, but is this a scenario of adaptation or homogenization of food?
Alongside this trend toward national and global development in food, this volume presents the counter-reaction that is taking place (especially in developed countries) toward local speciality and culturally bound foods, with emphasis on the importance of the inter-connection of local communities and agri-food culture and economy. With an in-depth analysis of agricultural businesses, this book shows that the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in rural communities with often renewed and engaged connection with consumers and imaginative use of new media.
This book will be of interest to students, researchers and policy-makers concerned with agriculture, food production and economics, cultural studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|68 pages
Food product and channel development
chapter 3|16 pages
How does industry convergence affect suppliers and consumers?
chapter 4|12 pages
Novel non-thermal food preservation technology
part 2|98 pages
Food policy, regulation, labelling and consumption
chapter 6|17 pages
Conflicting interests and regulatory systems of new food technologies
chapter 10|17 pages
Trying to lose weight in an ‘obesogenic' environment
part 3|104 pages
Sustainable food supply chain
chapter 12|17 pages
Changes in the market environment and implications for the supply chain
chapter 16|12 pages
Challenges in power-imbalanced food supply
part 4|55 pages
Socially responsible food