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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... natural " at both the beginning and the end of the systems of food provision - both in agriculture and in palatability ' ( Fine , 1998 : 8 ) . The organic ( or biological ) nature of food has implications throughout the entire food ...
... natural " at both the beginning and the end of the systems of food provision - both in agriculture and in palatability ' ( Fine , 1998 : 8 ) . The organic ( or biological ) nature of food has implications throughout the entire food ...
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... natural environment , the declining attractiveness of the coun- tryside , reduction of biodiversity and the unethical treatment of farm ani- mals ( Kirchmann and Thorvaldsson , 2000 ; Horrigan et al . , 2002 ) . Other public concerns ...
... natural environment , the declining attractiveness of the coun- tryside , reduction of biodiversity and the unethical treatment of farm ani- mals ( Kirchmann and Thorvaldsson , 2000 ; Horrigan et al . , 2002 ) . Other public concerns ...
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... natural science research seemed to provide an un- disputed basis for this conventional , or standard , risk politics , but it looks like public trust in science and experts is diminishing as food risks are evolving within global ...
... natural science research seemed to provide an un- disputed basis for this conventional , or standard , risk politics , but it looks like public trust in science and experts is diminishing as food risks are evolving within global ...
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... natural resource degradation , as desperately poor farmers mine soil fertility and climb the hillsides in an effort to survive . ... Agricultural development , poverty reduction , and environmental sus- tainability are likely to go hand ...
... natural resource degradation , as desperately poor farmers mine soil fertility and climb the hillsides in an effort to survive . ... Agricultural development , poverty reduction , and environmental sus- tainability are likely to go hand ...
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... natural and social phe- nomena to be better controlled by humans . Global modernity has under- mined this clear and promising image . In particular , the assumption that fur- ther rationalisation in combination with a fully implemented ...
... natural and social phe- nomena to be better controlled by humans . Global modernity has under- mined this clear and promising image . In particular , the assumption that fur- ther rationalisation in combination with a fully implemented ...
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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