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Food, Globalization and Sustainability
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By Peter Oosterveer and David A. Sonnenfeld
• Essential for students and professionals
working on food and environmental
policy, sociology, and agricultural and food
economics
• Focuses on the roles of multinational
companies, governments and NGOs
• Detailed case studies: organic, fair trade,
Peter Oosterveer is an Associate Professor in the
Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, The
Netherlands.
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256 pages • October 2011
Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby
transforming the organisation of food production and
consumption globally. Distance between food producers
and consumers is increasing and new concerns, such
as environmental impact and animal welfare, are
arising. This book provides an overview of the principal
conceptual frameworks that have been developed for
understanding these changes. It shows how conventional
regulation of food provision through sovereign national
governments is becoming elusive, at the same time
as multinational companies put serious limits to
governmental interventions. In this context, other social
actors including food retailers and NGOs are shown to
take up innovative roles in governing food provision, but
their contribution to agro-food sustainability is under
continuous scrutiny. The authors apply these themes
in several detailed case studies, including organic, fair
trade, local food and fish. On the basis of these cases,
future developments are explored, with a focus on the
respective roles of agricultural producers, retailers and
consumers.
David A. Sonnenfeld is a Professor in the Department of
Environmental Studies at the State University of New York,
College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF),
Syracuse, USA .
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
Section I: Conceptual background
2. Globalization and food production and consumption
3. Sustainability and food production and consumption
4. Regulating food in the global network society
Section II: Cases
5. Food provisioning and climate change
6. Local food provision
7. Fair-trade: buying and selling consumer trust
8. Sustainable fish provision
Section III: Future perspectives
9. Roles of producers in sustainable food provision
10. Restructuring food supply: supermarkets and
sustainability
11. Consumer involvement in sustainable food provision
12. Conclusion
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