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The Soybean Through World History - Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems (Hardcover)
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The Soybean Through World History - Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
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This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean
throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the
complex processes of agrofood globalization. The book uses a
historical lens to analyse the processes and features that brought
us to the current global configuration of soy. From its origins as
a peasant food in ancient China, today the protein-rich soybean is
by far the most cultivated biotech crop on Earth, used to make a
huge variety of food and industrial products, including animal
feed, tofu, cooking oil, soy sauce, biodiesel and soap. While there
is a burgeoning amount of literature on how the contemporary global
soy web affects large tracts of our planet’s social and
ecological systems, little attention has been given to the
questions of how we got here and what alternative roles the soybean
has played in the past. This book fills this gap and demonstrates
that it is impossible to properly comprehend the contemporary
global soybean chain, or the wider agrofood system of which it is a
part, without looking at both their long and short historical
development. However, a history of the soybean and its changing
roles within equally changing agrofood systems is inexorably a
history about globalization. Not only does this book map out where
soybeans are produced, but also who governs, wields power and
accumulates capital in the entire commodity chain from production
to consumption, as well as identifying the institutional context
the global commodity chain operates within. The book concludes by
considering the soybean’s future role in a desirable agrofood
system which improves human health, culture and livelihoods, and
the provision of ecosystem services. This book is essential reading
for students and scholars interested in agriculture and food
systems, global commodity chains, globalization, environmental
history, economic history and social-ecological systems.
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