Worlds of Food: Place, Power, and Provenance in the Food by Kevin Morgan, Terry Marsden, Jonathan Murdoch

By Kevin Morgan, Terry Marsden, Jonathan Murdoch

3 best students within the box clarify why position and provenance are assuming extra significance within the meals chain to manufacturers, shoppers, and regulators. They study how those issues impression debates at the way forward for foodstuff and farming, exploring the results for 3 very diversified areas: California, Tuscany, and Wales.

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First, we examine the politics of trade liberalization in agriculture by focusing on the current debates in the socalled Doha Development Round, where we inspect the chief contestants and their positions, highlighting the ‘non-trade’ aspects of the negotiations. 28 Regulatory World of Agri-food Second, we analyse the plans to reform the farm support systems in the two most important players in world agriculture, namely the EU and US. SpeciWcally, we focus on the rival visions of agriculture and the conXicts that these have produced, such as those over hormone-treated beef and GMOs.

One particularly inXuential variant has examined the construction of food commodity chains. The investigation of commodity chains or networks in the food sector has strong theoretical roots. The Wrst examples of agri-food commodity chain analysis appeared during an early round of Marxist theorizing on the sector. g. family farms) as the imposition of capitalist relations fuelled a process of industrialization (de Janvry, 1981). This process appeared to be ‘disembedding’ food production processes from pre-existing (‘pre-industrial’) economic, social, and spatial connections.

First, it is easy to identify the spaces of the Industrial World. g. the Midwest of the United States, East Anglia in the UK, the Paris Basin in France). They also comprise the areas of standardized food manufacture and industrial food processes (as is the case, for instance, in Denmark). Second, the spaces that make up the World of Intellectual Resources can be seen in those laboratories and science parks that are taking forward the GM revolution (Monsanto’s labs in Missouri, for instance). The fruits of such scientiWc know-how are applied ever more extensively in the form of GM agriculture (again, the American Midwest is the prime exemplar).

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