Global Governance of Food Production and Consumption: Issues and ChallengesEdward Elgar Publishing, 2007 M01 1 - 294 pages The provision of food is undergoing radical transformations throughout the global community. Peter Oosterveer argues that, as a consequence, conventional national governmental regulations can no longer adequately respond to existing and emerging food risks and to environmental concerns. This book examines these challenges. |
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... Economic Zone European Food Safety Authority Environmental Protection Agency ( US ) European Union Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations Food and Drugs Administration ( US ) Federation of European Aquaculture Producers ...
... Economic Zone European Food Safety Authority Environmental Protection Agency ( US ) European Union Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations Food and Drugs Administration ( US ) Federation of European Aquaculture Producers ...
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... Economic Cooperation and Development Organisation Internationale des Epizootiques Polychlorinated Biphenyl Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Technical Barrier to Trade Transnational Corporation Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy ...
... Economic Cooperation and Development Organisation Internationale des Epizootiques Polychlorinated Biphenyl Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Technical Barrier to Trade Transnational Corporation Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy ...
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... economic impacts . The discovery of the first case of BSE in the US in 2003 , and the following trade restrictions by Japan , resulted for example in an immediate 18 per cent decline in the beef exports from the US to Japan ( Leuck et ...
... economic impacts . The discovery of the first case of BSE in the US in 2003 , and the following trade restrictions by Japan , resulted for example in an immediate 18 per cent decline in the beef exports from the US to Japan ( Leuck et ...
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... economic transition in which the needs of global capital are imposing a neo - liberal economic discipline on societies all over the world . In their analysis , large transnational corporations are be- coming footloose and imposing their ...
... economic transition in which the needs of global capital are imposing a neo - liberal economic discipline on societies all over the world . In their analysis , large transnational corporations are be- coming footloose and imposing their ...
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... economic , cultural , migratory and environmental domains . 9 Transformationalists moreover do not view globalisation as a continuous and inevitable process towards grow- ing global cultural and economic homogeneity . Hyperglobalist ...
... economic , cultural , migratory and environmental domains . 9 Transformationalists moreover do not view globalisation as a continuous and inevitable process towards grow- ing global cultural and economic homogeneity . Hyperglobalist ...
Contents
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a conceptual framework | 41 |
4 Governments and the governance of food | 63 |
reflexive modernity and the BSE crisis | 81 |
6 Governing genetically modified food in the global network society | 111 |
7 Turning blue into green? | 147 |
labelling as new arrangements? | 193 |
9 Conclusions | 222 |
References | 236 |
The most important arguments used by proponents and opponents of GM foods | 274 |
The international environmental instruments influencing fisheries | 276 |
Index | 278 |
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