Concentration and Power in the Food System
Who Controls What We Eat?, Revised Edition
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2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-18306-3 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-18306-3 (ISBN)
Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, exert control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes the strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to further increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trends are not inevitable. Opposed by numerous efforts, from microbreweries to seed saving networks, it explores how opposition to this has encouraged even the most powerful firms to make small but positive changes.
This revised edition has been updated to reflect recent developments in the food system, as well as the broad political economic forces that shape them. It also examines the rapidly changing technologies, such as Big Data and automation, which have the potential to reinforce, as well as to challenge, the power of the largest firms.
This revised edition has been updated to reflect recent developments in the food system, as well as the broad political economic forces that shape them. It also examines the rapidly changing technologies, such as Big Data and automation, which have the potential to reinforce, as well as to challenge, the power of the largest firms.
Philip H. Howard is Associate Professor of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University, USA and a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Agriculture and Human Values.
Preface
1. Food System Concentration: A Political Economy Perspective
2. Reinterpreting Antitrust: Retailing
3. Structuring Dependency: Distribution
4. Engineering Consumption: Packaged Food and Beverages
5. Manipulating Prices: Commodity Processing
6. Subsidizing the Treadmill: Farming and Ranching
7. Enforcing the New Enclosures: Agricultural Inputs
8. Standardizing Resistance: The Organic Food Chain
9. Endgame?
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics |
| Zusatzinfo | 8 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 494 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-18306-7 / 1350183067 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-18306-3 / 9781350183063 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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