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Overview"Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an international community imagined in the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Simultaneously, the numbers and interests of people asserting political stakes in food and agriculture have likewise shifted up and out. Global networks advocate social justice in distal agrarian systems, promotion of some farming techniques and prohibition of others, food sovereignty or efficiencies of markets and trade. Political consumerism allows the well-endowed to ""vote with their dollars"" for changes in food systems far from home, but depends on certification and labeling from unseen institutions. As an object of governmentality, food has never been so prominent. The thirty-five handbook chapters confront four major themes in the politics of food: property, technology, justice and knowledge. Ronald Herring's editorial introduction asks how food is political, highlighting contention around the role of market, state and information in societal decisions. The first section of the handbook then examines technology, science and knowledge in food production. What is known - and disputed - about malnutrition, poverty and food security? The second section addresses ethics, rights and distributive justice: agrarian reform, gender inequality, entitlements and subsidies, and the social vision of the alternative food movement. The third section looks to intersections of agriculture and nature: wild foods, livestock, agro-ecological approaches to sustainability, and climate change and genetic engineering. The fourth section addresses food values and culture: political consumerism, labeling and certification, the science and cultural politics of food safety, values driving regulation of genetically modified foods and potential coexistence of GMOs, and organic and conventional crops. The fifth and final section looks at frontiers of global contentions: rival transnational advocacy networks, social movements for organic farming, the who and why of international land grabbing, junctures of cosmopolitan and local food narratives, the ""supermarket revolution"" and the international agrifood industry in low-income countries, and politics of knowledge in agricultural futures." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ronald J. Herring (Professor of Government, Professor of Government, Cornell University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 24.90cm , Height: 5.60cm , Length: 17.80cm Weight: 1.610kg ISBN: 9780195397772ISBN 10: 0195397770 Pages: 904 Publication Date: 19 February 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction: Food, Politics, and Society 1. How is Food Political? Market, State, and Knowledge Ronald J. Herring Part I Production: Technology, Knowledge, and Politics 2. Science, Politics, and the Framing of Modern Agricultural Technologies John Harriss, Drew Stewart 3. Genetically Improved Crops Martina Newell-McGloughlin 4. Agroecological Intensification of Smallholder Farming Rebecca Nelson, Richard Coe 5. The Hardest Case: What Blocks Improvements in Agriculture in Africa? Robert L. Paarlberg 6. The Poor, Malnutrition, Biofortification, and Biotechnology Alexander Stein 7. Biofuels: Competition for Land, Resources, and Political Subsidies David Pimentel, Michael Burgess 8. Alternative Paths to Food Security Norman Uphoff Part II Normative Knowledge: Ethics, Rights, and Distributive Justice 9. Ethics of Food Production and Consumption Michiel Korthals 10. Food, Justice, and Land Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco 11. Food Security, Productivity, and Gender Inequality Bina Agarwal 12. Delivering Food Subsidy: The State and the Market Ashok Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami 13. Diets, Nutrition, and Poverty: Lessons from India Raghav Gaiha, Raghbendra Jha, Vani S. Kulkarni, Nidhi Kaicker 14. Food Price and Trade Policy Biases: Inefficient, Inequitable, yet not Inevitable Kym Anderson 15. Intellectual Property Rights and the Politics of Food Krishna Ravi Srinivas 16. Is Food the Answer to Malnutrition David E. Sahn Part III Nature: Food, Agriculture, and the Environment 17. Fighting Mother Nature with Biotechnology Alan McHughen 18. Climate Change and Agriculture: Countering Doomsday Scenarios Derrill D. Watson II 19. Wild Foods Jules Pretty, Zareen Bharucha 20. Livestock in the Food Debate Purvi Mehta-Bhatt, Paolo Ficarelli 21. The Social Vision of the Alternative Food Movement Siddhartha Shome Part IV Food Values: Ideas, Interests, and Culture 22. Food Values Beyond Nutrition Ann Grodzins Gold 23. Cultural Politics of Food Safety: Genetically Modified Food in Japan, France, and the United States Kyoko Sato 24. Food Safety Bruce Chassy 25. The Politics of Food Labeling and Certification Emily Clough 26. The Politics of Grocery Shopping: Eating, Voting, and (Possibly) Transforming the Food System Josee Johnston, Norah MacKendrick 27. The Political Economy of Regulation of Biotechnology in Agriculture Gregory D. Graff, Gal Hochman, David Zilberman 28. Coexistence in the Fields? GM, Organic, and Conventional Food Crops Janice Thies Part V Global Meets Local: Contestations, Movements, and Expertise 29. Global Movements for Food Justice M. Jahi Chappell 30. The Rise of the Organic Foods Movement as a Transnational Phenomenon Tomas Larsson 31. Global Meets Local in Food Narratives: The Case of the Thai Papaya Sarah Davidson Evanega, Mark Lynas 32. Thinking the African Food Crisis: The Sahel Forty Years On Michael J. Watts 33. Transformation of the Agrifood Industry in Developing Countries Thomas Reardon, C. Peter Timmer 34. The Twenty-first Century Agricultural Land Rush Gregory Thaler 35. Agricultural Futures: The Politics of Knowledge Ian Scoones IndexReviews"""...explores the analytical puzzles: why should food be politica and why is food knowledge contested?"" -- Wonderpedia" ...explores the analytical puzzles: why should food be politica and why is food knowledge contested? -- Wonderpedia Author InformationRonald J. Herring is Professor of Government and International Professor of Agriculture and Rural Development at Cornell University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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