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Between the local and the global : confronting complexity in the contemporary agri-food sector /

The volume presents a range of critical perspectives on the contemporary agri-food sector. The starting point is the recognition that geography matters in agri-food more than ever, and it plays a diverse range of roles in shaping production-consumption relations. With hindsight, it may be argued tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Marsden, Terry, Murdoch, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2006.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Research in rural sociology and development ; v. 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Network theories and political economy : from attrition to convergence? / John Wilkinson
  • Differentiated standardization, standardized differentiation : the complexity of the global agrifood system / Maki Hatanaka, Carmen Bain, Lawrence Busch
  • Audit cultures and the antipodes : the implications of EurepGAP for New Zealand and Australian agri-food industries / Hugh Campbell, Geoffrey Lawrence, Kiah Smith
  • Neoliberalism and the problem of space : competing rationalities of governance in fair trade and mainstream agri-environmental networks / Stewart Lockie, Michael Goodman
  • 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 northeastern Brazil / Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti
  • Slow food's 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, Jill Harrison
  • Exploring dimensions of qualities in food / Egil Petter Straete, Terry Marsden
  • Alternative food networks in the south west of England : towards a new agrarian eco-economy? / Roberta Sonnino, Terry Marsden
  • The strategic turn of organic farming in Europe : from a resource based to an entrepreneurial approach of organic marketing initiatives / Bertil Sylvander, Nathalie Schieb-Bienfait.