ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|23 pages
Agrarian Questions
part I|61 pages
Institutions, Embeddedness and Agrarian Trajectories
chapter 2|16 pages
Regional Integration and the Family Farm in the Mercosul Countries
chapter 3|17 pages
Multiple Trajectories of Rural Industrialisation
chapter 4|20 pages
Agrarian Questions in the Making of the Knitwear Industry in Tirupur, India
part II|36 pages
Restructuring, Industry and Regional Dynamics
chapter II|6 pages
Commentary On Part II
part III|51 pages
Globalisation, Value and Regulation in the Commodity System
chapter III|6 pages
Commentary On Part III
part IV|38 pages
Discourse and Class, Networks and Accumulation
part V|34 pages
Transnational Capital and Local Responses
chapter V|5 pages
Commentary On Part V
part VI|32 pages
Nature, Sustainability and the Agrarian Question