Globalising Food

Author : David Goodman,Michael Watts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134716067

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Globalising Food by David Goodman,Michael Watts Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Le Heron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317183518

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Agri-Food Commodity Chains and Globalising Networks by Richard Le Heron Pdf

Within the international agri-food community at least four theoretical targets are attracting increasing attention. They are: (1) the established notions of networks and commodity chains that are being revisited by way of critical engagement informed by the insights of in-depth empirical work, (2) the metrics of calculation and institutional embedding that underpin the rise and functionality of governance technologies, (3) the place of regional networking in creating conditions that make possible agri-food producer participation in local provisioning and supply, and (4) the geo-historical dimensions of interconnection and interdependency in the agri-food sphere. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of anthropologists, economists, business and management academics and geographers to examine a wide range of case studies illustrating various agri-food commodity chains and networks around the world and to discuss how they link globally.

Author : M.G.Venkatesh Mannar,Richard F. Hurrell
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780128028971

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Food Fortification in a Globalized World by M.G.Venkatesh Mannar,Richard F. Hurrell Pdf

Food Fortification in a Globalized World outlines experiences over the past 50 years—and future potential—for the application of food fortification across a variety of foods in the industrialized and developing world. The book captures recent science and applications trends in fortification, including emerging areas such as biofortification, nutraceuticals and new nutrient intake recommendations, standards, policy and regulation. The book proposes a balanced and effective food fortification strategy for nations to adopt. In covering the most technical scientific details in an approachable style, this work is accessible to a range of practitioners in industry, government, NGOs, academia and research. Food fortification has become an increasingly significant strategy to address gaps in micronutrient intakes in populations with measurable impact in both industrialized and developing countries. While the positive impacts are well recognized there are new concerns in some countries that excessive fortification of foods, outdated nutritional labeling rules and misleading marketing tactics used by food manufacturers may result in young children consuming harmful amounts of some vitamins and minerals. Presents the latest science on fortification for the prevention of micronutrient deficiencies Includes emerging areas such as biofortification, nutraceuticals and new nutrient intake recommendations, standards, regulations, practices and policies from around the world Summarizes evidence of application of food fortification and measured impact on public health Discusses how public policy impacts fortification of foods and nutritional deficiencies Considers the complex economics of and market for fortified foods

Author : Sidney Cheung,David Y. H. Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136002946

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Globalization of Chinese Food by Sidney Cheung,David Y. H. Wu Pdf

Does Chinese food taste the same in different parts of the world? What has happened to the Chinese diet in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau? What has affected the foodways of Chinese communities in other Asian countries with large Chinese diasporic communities? What has made Chinese food popular in Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan? What has brought about the adoption and adaptation of western food and changes in Chinese diets in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Peking? By considering the practice of globalization, this volume of essays by well-known anthropologists from many locales in Asia, describes changes, variations and innovations to Chinese food in many parts of the world, paying particular attention to questions related to how foods are introduced, maintained, localised and reinvented according to changing lifestyles and social tastes. The book reviews and broadens classic social science theories about ethnic and social identity formation through the examination of Chinese food and eating habits in many locations. It reveals surprising changes and provides a powerful testimony to the impact of late twentieth-century globalization.

Author : Sidney Cheung,David Y. H. Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136847462

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The Globalisation of Chinese Food by Sidney Cheung,David Y. H. Wu Pdf

By considering the practice of globalisation, these essays describe changes, variations and innovations to Chinese food in many parts of the world. The book reviews and broadens classic theories about ethnic and social identity formation through the examination of Chinese food, providing a powerful testimony to the impact of late 20th century globalisation.

Author : Nora Katharina Faltmann,Judith Ehlert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1013270665

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Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam by Nora Katharina Faltmann,Judith Ehlert Pdf

This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country's rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks that have become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further puts the eating body centre stage by following how gendered body norms, food taboos, power structures and social differentiation shape people's ambivalent relations with food. It uncovers Vietnam's trajectories of agricultural modernisation against which consumers and producers manoeuvre amongst food self-sufficiency, security and abundance. Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam is explicitly about 'dangerous' food - regarding its materiality and meaning. It provides social science perspectives on anxieties related to food and surrounding discourses that travel between the local and the global, the individual and society and into the body. Therefore, the book's lens of food anxiety matters for social theory and for understanding the embeddedness and discontinuities of food globalizations in Vietnam and beyond. Due to its rich empirical base, methodological approaches and thematic foci, it will appeal to scholars, practitioners and students alike. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Peter Oosterveer,David Allan Sonnenfeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849712613

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Food, Globalization and Sustainability by Peter Oosterveer,David Allan Sonnenfeld Pdf

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Rafi Grosglik
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438481579

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Globalizing Organic by Rafi Grosglik Pdf

Globalizing Organic focuses on the globalization of a culture of "eating for change" and the ways in which local meanings attached to the production of foods embed ecological and social values. Rafi Grosglik examines how organic agriculture was integrated in Israel—a state in which agriculture was a key mechanism in promoting Jewish nationalism and in time has become highly mechanized and technologically sophisticated. He explores how organic food, which signifies environmental protection and social equity, has been realized in a country where environmental issues are perceived as less pressing compared to inner political conflicts, the Israeli-Arab conflict, and recurrent wars. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and analysis of historical documents and media, Grosglik traces how alternative food movements are affected by global and local trends. He covers a wide range of topics, including the ethos of halutzim ("pioneers," Zionist ideological farmers and workers), the utopian visions of the Israeli kibbutz, indigeneity that is claimed both by Palestinians and Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, biblical meanings that have been ascribed to environmental and countercultural ideas, the Americanization of Israeli society, and its neoliberalized economy.

Author : Alexander Nützenadel,Frank Trentmann
Publisher : Berg
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845206796

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Food and Globalization by Alexander Nützenadel,Frank Trentmann Pdf

Food has a special significance in the expanding field of global history. In this wide-ranging study, the authors provide an historical overview of the relationship between food and globalization in the modern world.

Author : Swetha Anthony,Elizabeth M. Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848884304

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Beyond the Superficial: Making Sense of Food in a Globalized World by Swetha Anthony,Elizabeth M. Schmidt Pdf

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. The ten essays which make up this volume create a delectable salad, which stands out both in taste and appeal, through a multifarious exploration of themes enriching the all-inclusive discourse on food. Rather than reiterating the debates that have been hashed and re-hashed in various disciplines, the essays compiled here explore novel ideas and spark unique discussions regarding the situatedness of food in everyday life using parameters such as culture, identity, space and taste. Employing unique inter- and intra-disciplinary methodologies and critical approaches, each article explores the evolution of definitions of food, cuisine and foodways and focuses on the ways in which discussions about food have moved beyond the superficial – food as a means of survival – to play a role in economic, social, political, cultural and ideological realms. By transcending boundaries of discipline, methodology and interest areas, this compilation will appeal to the tastes of anyone interested in food.

Author : David Inglis,Debra L. Gimlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Food
ISBN : OCLC:1285555683

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The Globalization of Food by David Inglis,Debra L. Gimlin Pdf

Author : Peter Andree,Jeffrey Ayres,Michael Bosia,Marie-Josee Massicotte
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442696877

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Globalization and Food Sovereignty by Peter Andree,Jeffrey Ayres,Michael Bosia,Marie-Josee Massicotte Pdf

In recent years, food sovereignty has emerged as a way of contesting corporate control of agricultural markets in pursuit of a more democratic, decentralized food system. The concept unites individuals, communities, civil society organizations, and even states in opposition to globalizing food regimes. This collection examines expressions of food sovereignty ranging from the direct action tactics of La Vía Campesina in Brazil to the consumer activism of the Slow Food movement and the negotiating stances of states from the global South at WTO negotiations. With each case, the contributors explore how claiming food sovereignty allows individuals to challenge the power of global agribusiness and reject neoliberal market economics. With perspectives drawn from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Globalization and Food Sovereignty is the first comparative collection to focus on food sovereignty activism worldwide.

Author : Alison Blay-Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317118633

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Imagining Sustainable Food Systems by Alison Blay-Palmer Pdf

What defines a sustainable food system? How can it be more inclusive? How do local and global scales interact and how does power flow within food systems? How to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to realizing sustainable food systems? And how to activate change? These questions are considered by EU and North American academics and practitioners in this book. Using a wide range of case studies, it provides a critical overview, showing how and where theory and practice can converge to produce more sustainable food systems.

Author : Olivier De Schutter,Kaitlin Y Cordes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847318480

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Accounting for Hunger by Olivier De Schutter,Kaitlin Y Cordes Pdf

The challenge of global hunger is now high on the agenda of governments and international policy-makers. This new work contributes to addressing that challenge, by looking at the obstacles which stand in the way of implementing a right to food in the era of globalisation. The book describes the current situation of global hunger; it considers how it relates both to the development of food systems and to the merger of the food and energy markets; and it explains how the right to food contributes to identifying solutions at the domestic and international levels. The right to food, it argues, can only be realised if governance improves at the domestic level, and if the international environment enables governments to adopt appropriate policies, for which they require a certain policy space. The essays in this book demonstrate that the current regimes of trade, investment and food aid, as well as the development of biofuels production – all of which contribute to define the international context in which states implement such reforms – should be reshaped if national efforts are to be successful. The implication is that extraterritorial human rights obligations of states (their obligations to respect the right to food beyond their national territories, for instance in their food aid, investment or trade policies), as well as the strengthening of global governance of food security (as is currently being attempted with the reform of the Committee on World Food Security in Rome), have a key role to fulfill: domestic reforms will not achieve sustainable results unless the international environment is more enabling of the efforts of governments acting individually. In this reform process, accountability both at the domestic and international level is essential if sustainable progress is to be achieved in combating global hunger.

Author : Lauren E. Baker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442206533

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Corn Meets Maize by Lauren E. Baker Pdf

This compelling book exploresthe intimate connections between people and plants, agriculture and cooking, and the practical work of building local food networks and transnational social movements. Lauren E. Baker uses corn and maize to consider central debates about food security and food sovereignty, biodiversity and biotechnology, culture and nature, as well as globalization and local responses, in Mexico and beyond. For the author, corn symbolizes the commoditization of agriculture and the cultural, spiritual, ecological and economic separation of people from growing, cooking, and sharing food. Conversely, maize represents emerging food movements that address contemporary health, environmental, and economic imperatives while rooted in agricultural and culinary traditions. The meeting of corn and maize reveals the challenge of, and possibilities for, reclaiming food from its commodity status in the global context of financial turmoil, food crises, and climate change.