Overview

Across the world, food systems and agricultural systems are changing at a phenomenal rate. Widespread restructuring has not been confined to the production and distribution of food, though; many regions and even nations are undergoing social, political, and economic transformation as well. Bringing together twelve essays by scholars from a number of disciplines, I this timely book documents the interdependence of food systems, nation states, and the world economy. Stressing the political foundations of global agro-food systems, it sheds light on such complex questions as whether today's changes in food and agrarian systems anticipate a new world order, or are merely efforts to preserve an old order in crisis.

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Author:   Philip D. McMichael ,  Philip McMichael (Edt)
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780801429408

ISBN 10:   0801429404
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   27 April 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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This is a timely collection devoted to the globalization of food and agriculture provides engaging reading for students of international development. McMichael begins and ends with a rigorous analysis of political restructuring at the state, (economic) sectoral, and global levels. -John Walton, Journal of Contemporary Sociology

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Philip D. McMichael is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Director of the International Political Economy Program at Cornell University.

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