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Book SynopsisPresents a range of critical perspectives on the contemporary agri-food sector. This book tells how geography matters in agri-food and plays a diverse range of roles in shaping production-consumption relations. It shows the importance of various areas and their associated institutions to the development of the international food system.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Between the local and the global: Confronting complexity in the contemporary food sector. (Terry Marsden and Jonathan Murdoch). SECTION 1 Network Theories and Political Economy: From Attrition to Convergence? (John Wilkinson). Audit Cultures and the Antipodes: the Implications of EurepGAP for New Zealand and Australian Agri-food Industries (Hugh Campbell, Geoffrey Lawrence and Kiah Smith). Differentiated Standardization, Standardized Differentiation: The Complexity of the Global Agrifood System. (Maki Hatanaka, Carmen Bain, Lawrence Busch). Neoliberalism and the problem of space: competing rationalities of governance in fair trade and mainstream agri-environmental networks. (Stewart Lockie and Michael Goodman). SECTION 2 Post-rural processes in wealthy rural areas: hybrid networks and symbolic capital. (Gianluca Brunori). Highlighting the retro side of innovation and its potential for regime change in agriculture. (Marian Stuiver). The Dynamics of Local Development: From Hunger to Quality Food. Cases from North Eastern Brazil. (Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti). Slow Foods Presidia: What Do Small Producers Do with Big Retailers? (Maria Fonte). Just Values or Just Value? Remaking the Local in Agro-Food Studies. (E. Melanie DuPuis, David Goodman and Jill Harrison). Exploring dimensions of qualities in food. (Egil Petter Straete and Terry Marsden). Alternative Food Networks in the South West of England: Towards a New Agrarian Eco-economy? (Roberta Sonnino and Terry Marsden). The strategic turn of Organic Farming in Europe: from a resource based to an entrepreneurial approach of Organic Marketing Initiatives. (B. Sylvander and N. Schieb-Bienfait).
