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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... impacts and health consequences of such globalised food provisioning ? Can the conventional nation - state - based regulation adequately deal with these environmental and food safety risks in the changing circumstances ? Alternatively ...
... impacts and health consequences of such globalised food provisioning ? Can the conventional nation - state - based regulation adequately deal with these environmental and food safety risks in the changing circumstances ? Alternatively ...
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... impacts in dif- ferent domains . ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD SAFETY IMPACTS OF GLOBALISING FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION Concerns about environmental , social and human health impacts of food production and consumption seem to have become ...
... impacts in dif- ferent domains . ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD SAFETY IMPACTS OF GLOBALISING FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION Concerns about environmental , social and human health impacts of food production and consumption seem to have become ...
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... 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 al ...
... 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 al ...
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... impacts of globalising food supply . More and more food products are offered to consumers accompanied by information about the production process and production circumstances involved , such as whether the food product has been produced ...
... impacts of globalising food supply . More and more food products are offered to consumers accompanied by information about the production process and production circumstances involved , such as whether the food product has been produced ...
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... impact of food production should not be approached in a simplistic way , for example IFPRI ( 2002 : 23 ) observes that ' it is commonly thought that intensifica- tion of agricultural production usually leads to environmental degradation ...
... impact of food production should not be approached in a simplistic way , for example IFPRI ( 2002 : 23 ) observes that ' it is commonly thought that intensifica- tion of agricultural production usually leads to environmental degradation ...
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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