The Oxford handbook of food, politics, and society / edited by Ronald J. Herring.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herring, Ronald J., 1947- editor.

Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Political aspects.

Food supply.

Food industry and trade.

Agriculture and politics.

Physical Description:

xi, 886 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Handbook of food, politics, and society

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Contents:

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

Global meets local in food narratives : the case of the Thai 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

0195397770

9780195397772

OCLC:

891121547