Description
Book SynopsisThe critical role of food in contemporary policy, in the UK, Europe and internationally, is explored in a comprehensive and readable account of current issues, including food rights, patenting, safety, aid, choice and poverty.
- This landmark collection explores the critical role of food in contemporary national and international policy.
- The contributors represent different professional and academic perspectives.
- The contributions challenge state, institutional and agency structures and responses to food as a social policy issue.
- Most of the contributors write from an empirical research base.
Table of ContentsPreface vii
1 Joined-up Food Policy? The Trials of Governance, Public Policy and the Food System 1
David Barling, Tim Lang and Martin Caraher
2 Patenting Our Food Failure: Intellectual Property rights and the Global Food System 20
Geoff Tansey
3 The Evolution of Food Safety Policy-making Institutions in the UK, EU and Codex Alimentarius 38
Erik Millstone and Patrick van Zwanenberg
4 Food Safety and Consumers: Constructions of Choice and Risk 54
Alizon Draper and Judith Green
5 Food Security: Rights, Livelihoods and the World Food Summit-Five Years Later 70
Karim Hussein
6 Food Banks and Food Security: Welfare Reform, Human Rights and Social Policy. Lessons from Canada? 91
Graham Riches
7 Food aid in Complex Emergencies: Lessons from Sudan 106
Elizabeth Ojaba, Anne Itto Leonardo and Margaret Itto Leonardo
8 School Meals Policy: The Problem with Governing Children 127
Ulla Gustafsson
9 Food and Poverty in Britain: Rights and Responsibilities 140
Elizabeth Dowler
Index 160
