Worlds of food place, power, and provenance in the food chain /

• Main Author: Morgan, Kevin.
• Other Authors: Marsden, Terry., Murdoch, Jonathan.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Series: Oxford geographical and environmental studies.
• Subjects: Food supply.; Agricultural industries.; Food industry and trade.; Sustainable agriculture.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Agribusiness. > Industries; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Sustainable Agriculture. > Agriculture; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (225 pages).
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-215) and index.
• ISBN: 9780191556623; 0191556629

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 free markets and the reality of a heavily subsidized farming sector. To understand the local impact of these global trends, the authors explore three different regional worlds of food: the traditional world of localized quality in Tuscany, the peripheral world of commodity production in Wales, and the frontier world of agri-business in California. --From publisher's description.