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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... firms to the farmer ( Busch , 1997 ) . Global competition between large industrial food processors and food retailers may also reduce the scope for different national food safety politics . 12 Whether the food safety risks resulting ...
... firms to the farmer ( Busch , 1997 ) . Global competition between large industrial food processors and food retailers may also reduce the scope for different national food safety politics . 12 Whether the food safety risks resulting ...
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... firms are often held responsible for these environmental problems because of their decisions on packaging food in supermarkets and because they decide to transport food products from all over the globe . Nevertheless , they can also ...
... firms are often held responsible for these environmental problems because of their decisions on packaging food in supermarkets and because they decide to transport food products from all over the globe . Nevertheless , they can also ...
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... firms as aimed at further disciplining producers , suppliers , workers and consumers when agro - food net- works become ever more transnationally dispersed . These standards not only define prod- uct attributes but also production ...
... firms as aimed at further disciplining producers , suppliers , workers and consumers when agro - food net- works become ever more transnationally dispersed . These standards not only define prod- uct attributes but also production ...
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... firms meanwhile competed among themselves on the price and quality of the different food products . Nation - state - based public regulation primar- ily dealt with the safety of food and acquired its shape generally through mandatory ...
... firms meanwhile competed among themselves on the price and quality of the different food products . Nation - state - based public regulation primar- ily dealt with the safety of food and acquired its shape generally through mandatory ...
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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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