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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... Growing up , I often rode shotgun with my father on grocery runs , which often included scouring Toronto's ... grown and whose hands helped to bring it to the table . ... Wholesale , there's a floor price on fair trade bananas , as well ...
... Growing up , I often rode shotgun with my father on grocery runs , which often included scouring Toronto's ... grown and whose hands helped to bring it to the table . ... Wholesale , there's a floor price on fair trade bananas , as well ...
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... growing quantities , facilitated by global cooling chains which allow long distance trading . Nevertheless , meat exports still represent less than 10 per cent of the total world production . The export is almost completely in the hands ...
... growing quantities , facilitated by global cooling chains which allow long distance trading . Nevertheless , meat exports still represent less than 10 per cent of the total world production . The export is almost completely in the hands ...
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... growing , but simultaneously the organisation of international food trade is changing . In particular , the increasingly central role of retailers , global brands and consumers at the expense of local food producers and food proc ...
... growing , but simultaneously the organisation of international food trade is changing . In particular , the increasingly central role of retailers , global brands and consumers at the expense of local food producers and food proc ...
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... growing . At the same time , the organisation of this trade is changing and these transitions result in global food supply networks . These fundamental changes , taking place over the last decades , have had radical impacts in dif ...
... growing . At the same time , the organisation of this trade is changing and these transitions result in global food supply networks . These fundamental changes , taking place over the last decades , have had radical impacts in dif ...
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... growing consumer demand for or- ganically grown food and fair trade commodities forms a clear indication of the intensification of consumer concerns about food and the willingness from consumers to find practical solutions to their ...
... growing consumer demand for or- ganically grown food and fair trade commodities forms a clear indication of the intensification of consumer concerns about food and the willingness from consumers to find practical solutions to their ...
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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