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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778058403321

Titolo

Corporate power in global agrifood governance / / edited by Jennifer Clapp and Doris Fuchs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009

ISBN

0-262-30971-8

9786612240126

1-282-24012-9

0-262-25550-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Food, health, and the environment

Altri autori (Persone)

ClappJennifer <1963->

FuchsDoris A

Disciplina

382/.41

Soggetti

Farm produce - Marketing

Agricultural industries

International business enterprises

Globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Foreword; Contributors; List of Acronyms; 1 Agrifood Corporations, Global Governance, and Sustainability; I Corporate Power in International Retail and Trade Governance; 2 Retail Power, Private Standards, and Sustainability in the Global Food System; 3 Certification Standards and the Governance of Green Foods in Southeast Asia; 4 In Whose Interests?; 5 Corporate Interests in US Food Aid Policy; II Corporations and Governance of Genetically Modified Organisms; 6 Feeding the World?; 7 Corporations, Seeds, and Intellectual Property Rights Governance

8 The Troubled Birth of the "Biotech Century"9 Technology, Food, Power; 10 Corporate Power and Global Agrifood Governance; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Here, experts examine the ways transnational corporations exercise power over governance of the global food system and the implications this has for sustainability.