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.
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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 Un...

Table of Contents:

• Networks, conventions and regions : theorizing 'worlds of food'
• The regulatory world of agri-food : politics, power, and conventions
• Geographies of agri-food
• Localized quality in Tuscany
• California : the parallel worlds of rival agri-food paradigms
• The commodity world in Wales
• Beyond the placeless foodscape : place, power, and provenance.