Agriculture in the New Global Economy
Illustrating contemporary policy debates using both theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence, this book will appeal to academics, researchers and students specialising in political science, environmental studies, agricultural economics, management and food policy. The book will also be of interest to government practitioners in agriculture and environment departments as well as international organisations such as the EU, FAO and WTO.
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Globalization has created forces in favor of both integration and fragmentation, per Coleman (political science, McMaster U., Canada), a fellow political scientist from the UK, and an agricultural economist from the US. Based on the fact that the food chain has become a major focus of resistance to globalization (e.g., the response to genetically modified foods) and the concept of a transnational policy space, the authors contribute to debates on global political economy rather than on globalization per se. With examples from several countries and commodity sectors, they identify four agricultural policy paradigms: the traditional dependent-agriculture, neo-liberal competitive, multifunctional, and emergent globalized-production. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1Introduction12Economic globalisation : changing patterns of trade, industry structure and farming263Technology and political resistance514The globalisation of ideas885Globalisation, regionalisation and trade rules1116A transnational policy space : the actors1407A Transnational policy space : structure162
