Globalizations. Trading morsels, growing hunger, decimating nature : linking food and trade to development and the environment. Linking food and trade to development and the environment.
Notes:
"By 'governance' we mean 'the institutionalized economic processes that organize and coordinate activity among a wide variety of economic actors'"--P. 2. "This collection was originally commissioned and produced for an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Princeton Environment Institute, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs entitled Trading Morsels, Growing Hunger, Decimating Nature : Linking Food and Trade to Development and the Environment. The current volume incorporates a selection of those papers and several thematically related additions that explicitly address the nature and consequences of food governance regimes"--P. 4. "Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations"--P. [i] Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Global complexities and local dynamics -- Responses to global complexity : branding and certification -- Responses to global complexity : ethical trade.
Summary:
The production, commercialization and consumption of food provides a window on globalization. This book presents recent interdisciplinary scholarship about the variety of mechanisms governing global food systems and their impacts on human and environmental well-being.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.