Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring

Globalising Food provides an innovative contribution to the political economy of agriculture, food and consumption. Among the themes addressed are: giant multinational food corporations rural industrialization World Bank policies regulation of pollution labour relations urban food politics environmental sustainability. This revealing investigation of the forces which are reshaping agricultural production, rural societies and food consumption draws on new theoretical perspectives and case studies from Britain, the US, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Latin America. William Boyd, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Fred Buttel, University of Wisconson, Madison, USA, Margaret Fitzsimmons, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, Will