Food /
By: Clapp, Jennifer.
Series: Resources.Publisher: Cambridge, England : Polity Press, 2012Description: xiii, 218 p. : ill., charts ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745649351 (hbk.); 9780745649351:; 0745649351 (hbk.); 9780745649368 (pbk.); 074564936X (pbk.).Subject(s): Food industry and trade -- Food supply | Food | Food industry and trade -- Environmental aspects | Food supply | Food industry and trade -- Developing countriesDDC classification: 338.47664Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- List of figures and tables -- 1 : unpacking the world food economy -- 2 : the rise of a global industrial food market -- 3 : uneven agricultural trade rules -- 4 : transnational corporations -- 5 : financialization of food -- 6 : can the world food economy be transformed? -- Notes -- Selected readings -- Index.
This book contributes to a fuller understanding of the forces that influence the current global food system. It explores how corporate control, inequitable international agricultural trade rules and the financialization of farm commodities have each had an influence on the practices that dominate today's global food system.