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The Oxford handbook of food, politics, and society /
This volume explores the complex interrelationships between food and agriculture, politics, and society. More specifically, it considers the political aspects of three basic economic questions: what is to be produced? how is it to be produced? how it is to be distributed? It also outlines three unif...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Oxford handbooks.
Oxford handbooks online. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- How is food political? Market, state, and knowledge / Ronald J. Herring
- Science, politics, and the framing of modern agricultural technologies / John Harriss, Drew Stewart
- Genetically improved crops / Martina Newell-McGloughlin
- Agroecological intensification of smallholder farming / Rebecca Nelson, Robert Coe
- The hardest case: What blocks improvements in agriculture in Africa? / Robert L. Paarlberg
- The poor, malnutrition, biofortification, and biotechnology / Alexander Stein
- Biofuels: Competition for land, resources, and political subsidies / David Pimentel, Michael Burgess
- Alternative paths to food security / Norman Uphoff
- Ethics of food production and consumption / Michiel Korthals
- Food, justice, and land / Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco
- Food security, productivity, and gender inequality / Bina Agarwal
- Delivering food subsidy: The state and the market / Ashok Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami
- Diets, nutrition, and poverty: Lessons from India / Raghav Gaiha, Raghbendra Jha, Vani S. Kulkarni, Nidhi Kaicker
- Food price and trade policy biases: Inefficient, inequitable, yet not inevitable / Kym Andersen
- Intellectual property rights and the politics of food / Krishna Ravi Srinivas
- Is food the answer to malnutrition? / David E. Sahn
- Fighting mother nature with biotechnology / Alan McHughen
- Climate change and agriculture: Countering doomsday scenarios / Derrill D. Watson II
- Wild foods / Jules Pretty, Zareen Bharucha
- Livestock in the food debate / Purvi Mehta-Bhatt, Paulo Ficarelli
- The social vision of the alternative food movement / Siddhartha Shome
- Food values beyond nutrition / Ann Grodzins Gold
- Cultural politics of food safety: Genetically modified food in Japan, France, and the United States / Kyoko Sato
- Food safety / Bruce Chassy
- The politics of food labeling and certification / Emily Clough
- The politics of grocery shopping: Eating, voting, and (possibly) transforming the food system / Josée Johnston, Norah MacKendrick
- The political economy of regulation of biotechnology in agriculture / Gregory D. Graff, Gal Hochman, David Zilberman
- Coexistence in the fields? GM, organic, and conventional food crops / Janice Thies
- Global movements for food justice / M. Jahi Chappell
- The rise of the organic foods movement as a transnational phenomenon / Tomas Larsson
- The dialectic of pro-poor papaya / Sarah Davidson Evanega, Mark Lynas
- Thinking the African food crisis: The Sahel forty years on / Michael J. Watts
- Transformation of the agrifood industry in developing countries / Thomas Reardon, C. Peter Timmer
- The twenty-first century agricultural land rush / Gregory Thaler
- Agricultural futures: The politics of knowledge / Ian Scoones.