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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... ( potentially ) contagious animal diseases and food risks . Despite these attempts to increase governmental control over food supply , the increasing number of food safety incidents and scandals seems only to incite public concerns ...
... ( potentially ) contagious animal diseases and food risks . Despite these attempts to increase governmental control over food supply , the increasing number of food safety incidents and scandals seems only to incite public concerns ...
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... potential lev- erage for changes in agri - food chains . Konefal et al . ( 2003 ) observed contradictory ten- dencies in the food retail sector , where on the one hand concentration tendencies led to a global oligopoly in the sector ...
... potential lev- erage for changes in agri - food chains . Konefal et al . ( 2003 ) observed contradictory ten- dencies in the food retail sector , where on the one hand concentration tendencies led to a global oligopoly in the sector ...
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... potential dangers related to food consumption , while pri- vate 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 ...
... potential dangers related to food consumption , while pri- vate 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 ...
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... potential impact of the risk . This conventional risk politics assigns separate roles to different scientific disciplines as well . Natural sciences are supposed to examine the relation- ships between causes and effects in case of ...
... potential impact of the risk . This conventional risk politics assigns separate roles to different scientific disciplines as well . Natural sciences are supposed to examine the relation- ships between causes and effects in case of ...
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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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