The Anatomy of the Food Crisis: Regulating the Risk Geographies of Agri-Food in the 21st Century

Agri-food studies are studies of the changing and ever more complex relationships between three spheres: economy, policy and space. At root, unlike other forms of commodity production or economic activity, however much the dominant systems of economic and political change may attempt to detach themselves from space, in their operation and regulation of the production and consumption of foods; space, through its embedded nature, geography, ecology, can never be entirely avoided or completely appropriated.