Rethinking agricultural policy regimes : food security, climate change and the future resilience of global agriculture / edited by Reidar Almås, Hugh Campbell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Almås, Reidar, 1943-

Campbell, Hugh, 1964-

Series:

Research in rural sociology and development ; v. 18.

Research in rural sociology and development, 1057-1922 ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and state.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For many decades debates about the future of developed world agriculture policy have been dominated by a long political conflict between European/multifunctional policy regimes and the global trend towards trade liberalisation. The stalemate that had emerged between these two positions by 2000 has now been dramatically reconfigured. This book argues that there are four reasons why this area of policy has now reopened to wider debate: The World Food Crisis of 2008-2011 has signalled a potential end to the era of cheap food. The emergence of climate change as a core policy concern has shifted key targets for agricultural policy. New trends towards 'neo-productivist' agricultural policy have emerged to challenge multifunctional approaches to agriculture. New academic ideas around resilience of food chains and relevant policy interventions have challenged established approaches to achieving agricultural sustainability. Through international case studies, this book evaluates how these new policy challenges are having an impact on specific agricultural policy regimes, and what future lessons might be learnt from key policy experiments around neoliberalism and multifunctionality.

Contents:

Introduction : emerging challenges, new policy frameworks and the resilience of agriculture / Reidar Almås, Hugh Campbell

The evolution of Western agricultural policy since 1945 / Bruce Muirhead, Reidar Almås

The rejuvenation of productivist agriculture : the case for "cooperative neo-productivism" / Rob J.F. Burton, Geoff A. Wilson

Western European approaches to and interpretations of multifunctional agriculture and some implications of a possible neo-productivist turn / Katrina Rønningen, Alan Renwick, Rob Burton

Food regime crisis and revaluing the agrarian question / Philip McMichael

The food crisis and the changing nature of Scottish agricultural policy discourse / Andrew Midgley, Alan Renwick

The worlds of dairy : comparing dairy frameworks in Canada and New Zealand in light of future shocks to food systems / Bruce Muirhead, Hugh Campbell

Norwegian dairy industry : a case of super-regulated co-operativism / Reidar Almås, Jostein Brobakk

The complex outcomes of neoliberalisation in New Zealand : productivism, audit and the challenge of future energy and climate shocks / Christopher Rosin, Hugh Campbell

Emerging neo-productivist agriculture as an approach to food security and climate change in Norway / Hilde Bjørkhaug, Reidar Almås, Jostein Brobakk

Comparison of bioenergy policies in Denmark and Germany / Gerald Schwarz, Egon Noe, Volker Saggau

Commodity competition : divergent trajectories in New Zealand pastoral farming / Paul Stock, Susan Peoples

Reframing policy regimes and the future resilience of global agriculture / Reidar Almås, Hugh Campbell.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786613524348

9781280120480

1280120487

9781780523491

1780523491

OCLC:

781968658