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Bill Pritchard provides an important update on how current trade
methodologies are implemented as China becomes one of the world's
largest fresh fruit importers from countries such as Laos, Myanmar,
Thailand and Vietnam. The book also looks at their distinctive
trade aspects and what can be learnt from alternative practices
carried out in other countries through the use of global production
networks. An in-depth analysis provides the reader with a welcome
insight into existing processes from production through to export,
often through informal routes, with a marketing structure providing
more power to the distributors and brokers and mixed effects on the
farmers. Using empirical evidence from four countries, this book
explores what could, and should, be implemented in this
under-researched topic to aid rural development. This will be an
invaluable resource for researchers of human geography,
international trade and Asian studies, particularly those with a
focus on Southeast Asia and China.
We live in a world of global food. The daily meals of people in
both the developed and developing worlds are being transformed by
the increasing ease with which food is being traded across
continents. Affluent consumers' supermarket trolleys increasingly
are being filled with an array of food products from developing
countries while, at the same time, food exports from the developed
world are supplanting and transforming dietary systems in
developing countries. Some experts suggest that the enhanced
tradability of food ushers in an era of increasing choice and
affluence. Others point to problems of dependency, inequality and
social dislocation accompanying these developments.
Cross-continental Food Systems represents a collective effort to
document and understand these issues. Containing the contributions
of twenty-six leading international social scientists from eleven
countries, the book presents recent case study research on how and
why the food system is being globalized, and what this meansfor
people and communities in different parts of the world. The book
covers debates on new structures and food products, as well as
detailed accounts of fresh horticulture, tropical crops and
livestock.
This book fills a major gap in contemporary scholarship on food and
globalization. Its emphasis on case study accounts of the
connections between trade and restructuring provides texture and
context to these complex and important debates. Written and
researched at a time in which national governments are seeking to
negotiate new rules of global agricultural trade, this book is
timely and relevant. It will interest researchers in geography,
development studies, agricultural economics andpolitical science,
as well as professionals in the fields of trade and food policy.
The global economic system is experiencing a profound period of
rapid change. The emergence of globalised production and
distribution systems, which bring together diverse constellations
of economic actors through a complex regime of global corporate
governance, state regulation and new international divisions of
labour, demands corresponding and innovative explanatory models.
Global value chains (GVCs) and global production networks (GPNs)
have been particularly useful as conceptual frameworks for
understanding the global market engagement of firms, regions and
nations. This book examines the rise of GVCs and GPNs as dominant
features of the international political economy. It brings together
leading thinkers in the field and sets out new directions for
future scholarship in understanding the contemporary global
economic system. In doing so, this book makes a significant
contribution to our understanding of the international political
economy and the global economic system in the post-Washington
Consensus era of contemporary capitalism. This book was published
as a special issue of the Review of International Political
Economy.
Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global
challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular
significance worldwide. Not only does India account for
approximately one quarter of the world's under-nourished persons,
it also provides a worrying case of how rapid economic growth may
not provide an assumed panacea to food security. This book takes on
this challenge. It explains how India's chronic food security
problem is a function of a distinctive interaction of economic,
political and environmental processes. It contends that
under-nutrition and hunger are lagging components of human
development in India precisely because the interfaces between these
aspects of the food security problem have not been adequately
understood in policy-making communities. Only through an
integrative approach spanning the social and environmental
sciences, are the fuller dimensions of this problem revealed. A
well-rounded appreciation of the problem is required, informed by
the FAO's conception of food security as encompassing availability
(production), access (distribution) and utilisation (nutritional
content), as well as by Amartya Sen's notions of entitlements and
capabilities.
The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to
the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.
Yet it is a complex and multi-faceted issue, requiring a broad and
inter-disciplinary perspective for full understanding. This
Handbook represents the most comprehensive compilation of our
current knowledge of food and nutrition security from a global
perspective. It is organized to reflect the wide scope of the
contents, its four sections corresponding to the accepted current
definitional frameworks prevailing in the work of multilateral
agencies and mainstream scholarship. The first section addresses
the struggles and progression of ideas and debates about the
subject in recent years. The other sections focus on three key
themes: how food has been, is and should be made available,
including by improvements in agricultural productivity; the ways in
which politico-economic and social arenas have shaped access to
food; and the effects of food and nutrition systems in addressing
human health, known as food utilisation. Overall, the volume
synthesizes a vast field of information drawn from agriculture,
soil science, climatology, economics, sociology, human and physical
geography, the nutrition and health sciences, environmental science
and development studies.
Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global
challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular
significance worldwide. Not only does India account for
approximately one quarter of the world's under-nourished persons,
it also provides a worrying case of how rapid economic growth may
not provide an assumed panacea to food security. This book takes on
this challenge. It explains how India's chronic food security
problem is a function of a distinctive interaction of economic,
political and environmental processes. It contends that
under-nutrition and hunger are lagging components of human
development in India precisely because the interfaces between these
aspects of the food security problem have not been adequately
understood in policy-making communities. Only through an
integrative approach spanning the social and environmental
sciences, are the fuller dimensions of this problem revealed. A
well-rounded appreciation of the problem is required, informed by
the FAO's conception of food security as encompassing availability
(production), access (distribution) and utilisation (nutritional
content), as well as by Amartya Sen's notions of entitlements and
capabilities.
The global economic system is experiencing a profound period of
rapid change. The emergence of globalised production and
distribution systems, which bring together diverse constellations
of economic actors through a complex regime of global corporate
governance, state regulation and new international divisions of
labour, demands corresponding and innovative explanatory models.
Global value chains (GVCs) and global production networks (GPNs)
have been particularly useful as conceptual frameworks for
understanding the global market engagement of firms, regions and
nations. This book examines the rise of GVCs and GPNs as dominant
features of the international political economy. It brings together
leading thinkers in the field and sets out new directions for
future scholarship in understanding the contemporary global
economic system. In doing so, this book makes a significant
contribution to our understanding of the international political
economy and the global economic system in the post-Washington
Consensus era of contemporary capitalism. This book was published
as a special issue of the Review of International Political
Economy.
Filling a gap in contemporary food and globalization scholarship,
this timely book presents recent case-study research on the
globalization of food systems, and the impacts for communities
around the world. It covers debates on new structures and food
products, as well as detailed accounts of fresh horticulture,
tropical crops and livestock. Drawing together contributions of
twenty-six leading international social scientists from eleven
countries, this book will interest researchers in geography,
development studies, agricultural economics and political science,
as well as professionals in the fields of trade and food policy.
The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to
the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.
Yet it is a complex and multi-faceted issue, requiring a broad and
inter-disciplinary perspective for full understanding. This
Handbook represents the most comprehensive compilation of our
current knowledge of food and nutrition security from a global
perspective. It is organized to reflect the wide scope of the
contents, its four sections corresponding to the accepted current
definitional frameworks prevailing in the work of multilateral
agencies and mainstream scholarship. The first section addresses
the struggles and progression of ideas and debates about the
subject in recent years. The other sections focus on three key
themes: how food has been, is and should be made available,
including by improvements in agricultural productivity; the ways in
which politico-economic and social arenas have shaped access to
food; and the effects of food and nutrition systems in addressing
human health, known as food utilisation. Overall, the volume
synthesizes a vast field of information drawn from agriculture,
soil science, climatology, economics, sociology, human and physical
geography, the nutrition and health sciences, environmental science
and development studies.
This book is the outcome of two International Conferences held at
the ISEC in Bangalore, India: the international conference on
"Climate Change and Social-Ecological-Economical
Interface-Building: Modelling Approach to Exploring Potential
Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood
Development" held during 20-21 May 2015 and jointly organized by
the Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR),
Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) and the Centre for
Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel,
Germany; and the international conference "Climate Change and Food
Security - the Global and Indian Contexts," jointly hosted by the
CEENR, ISEC and the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, on
18-19 February 2015. The selected papers presented in this book
portray a broad range of international research efforts aimed at
developing a deeper understanding of human-environment systems but
also at translating scientific knowledge into political and
societal solutions and responses to the challenge of climate
change.
This book is the outcome of two International Conferences held at
the ISEC in Bangalore, India: the international conference on
"Climate Change and Social-Ecological-Economical
Interface-Building: Modelling Approach to Exploring Potential
Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood
Development" held during 20-21 May 2015 and jointly organized by
the Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR),
Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) and the Centre for
Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel,
Germany; and the international conference "Climate Change and Food
Security - the Global and Indian Contexts," jointly hosted by the
CEENR, ISEC and the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, on
18-19 February 2015. The selected papers presented in this book
portray a broad range of international research efforts aimed at
developing a deeper understanding of human-environment systems but
also at translating scientific knowledge into political and
societal solutions and responses to the challenge of climate
change.
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