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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 382/.41
• Soggetto topico: Farm produce - Marketing; Agricultural industries; International business enterprises; Globalization
• Soggetto non controllato: ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy; ENVIRONMENT/Food Studies
• Altri autori: ClappJennifer <1963-> FuchsDoris A
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Corporate power in global agrifood governance
• ISBN: 0-262-30971-8; 9786612240126; 1-282-24012-9; 0-262-25550-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778058403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Food, health, and the environment.