| Description |
225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Oxford geographical and environmental studies |
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Oxford geographical and environmental studies.
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| Contents |
Networks, conventions and regions : theorizing worlds of food -- The regulatory world of agrifood : politics, power, and conventions -- Geographies of agrifood -- Localized quality in Tuscany -- California : the parallel worlds of rival agrifood paradigms -- The commodity world in Wales -- Beyond the placeless foodscape : place, power, and provenance |
| Summary |
"Drawing on theories of multi-level governance, three leading scholars in the field explore the geo-politics of the food chain in different spatial arenas: the World Trade Organization, where free trade principles clash with fair trade concerns in the debate about agricultural reform; the European Union, where producers are under pressure from environmentalists for a more traceable and sustainable food system; and the US, where there is a striking contradiction between the rhetoric of five markets and the reality of a heavily subsidised farming sector. To understand the local impact of these global trends, the authors explore three different regional worlds of food: the traditional world of localised quality in Tuscany, the peripheral world of community production in Wales, and the frontier world of agri-business in California."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Food supply.
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Agricultural industries.
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Food industry and trade.
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Sustainable agriculture.
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| Author |
Marsden, Terry.
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Murdoch, Jonathan.
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| LC no. |
2005023275 |
| ISBN |
0199271585 alkaline paper |
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