Food Policy Old and New - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405126027 ISBN 13: 9781405126021

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

Synopsis

This book demonstrates the need for a new food policy to address the challenges for the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change and industrialisation.

• A collection of papers demonstrating the need for a new food policy.
  
• Looks at the challenges for the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change, and industrialisation.
  
• Suggests that food policy now needs to encompass issues such as obesity, food safety, and competition policy in the retail sector.
  
• Warns that meeting these challenges needs to be on the agenda of policy makers throughout the world.
  
• Written by experts from Denmark, Italy, the UK and the US.
  
• Features a table summarising old and new food policy.
  
• Draws on new research data.

About this title

Book Description:

This book demonstrates the need for a new food policy to deal with the challenges to the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change and industrialisation. Comprising a series of papers written by experts from Denmark, Italy, the UK and the US, it points out that the food system is no longer about moving basic staples from farm to plate; nor is it concerned mainly with famine and food insecurity. Food policy, the contributors suggest, now needs to encompass issues such as obesity, food safety, and competition policy in the retail sector. The book concludes by warning that addressing these pressing concerns needs to be on the agenda of policy makers throughout the world.

About the Author:

Simon Maxwell is Director of the Overseas Development Institute. Previously, he has worked for the UN Development Programme in Kenya and India, for the British aid programme in Bolivia, and for the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.

Rachel Slater is Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, London. Her doctoral and post-doctoral work focused on urban and rural livelihoods in South Africa. She has also worked in India, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1405126027
• ISBN 13: 9781405126021
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Maxwell Simon