The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (Food Systems and Agrarian Change)

ISBN 10: 0801429404 / ISBN 13: 9780801429408

Published by Cornell University Press, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (Food Systems and Agrarian Change)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801429404
• ISBN 13: 9780801429408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Across the world, food systems and agricultural systems are changing at a phenomenal rate. Widespread restructuring has not been confined to the production and distribution of food, though; many regions and even nations are undergoing social, political, and economic transformation as well. Bringing together twelve essays by scholars from a number of disciplines, I this timely book documents the interdependence of food systems, nation states, and the world economy. Stressing the political foundations of global agro-food systems, it sheds light on such complex questions as whether today's changes in food and agrarian systems anticipate a new world order, or are merely efforts to preserve an old order in crisis.

About the Author

Philip D. McMichael is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Director of the International Political Economy Program at Cornell University.