The Oxford handbook of food, politics, and society
Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an international community imagined in the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Simultaneously, the numbers and interests of people asserting political stakes in food and agriculture have likewise shifted up and out. Global networks advocate social justice in distal agrarian systems, promotion of some farming techniques and prohibition of others, food sovereignty or efficiencies of markets and trade. Political consumerism allows the well-endowed to "vote with their dollars" for changes in food systems far from home, but depends on certification and labeling from unseen institutions. As an object of governmentality, food has never been so prominent. The thirty-five handbook chapters confront four major themes in the politics of food: property, technology, justice and knowledge. Ronald Herring's editorial introduction asks how food is political, highlighting contention around the role of market, state and information in societal decisions. The first section of the handbook then examines technology, science and knowledge in food production. What is known - and disputed - about malnutrition, poverty and food security? The second section addresses ethics, rights and distributive justice: agrarian reform, gender inequality, entitlements and subsidies, and the social vision of the alternative food movement. The third section looks to intersections of agriculture and nature: wild foods, livestock, agro-ecological approaches to sustainability, and climate change and genetic engineering.
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Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an international community imagined in the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Simultaneously, the numbers and interests of people asserting political stakes in food and agriculture have likewise shifted up and out. Global networks advocate social justice in distal agrarian systems, promotion of some farming techniques and prohibition of others, food sovereignty or efficiencies of markets and trade. Political consumerism allows the well-endowed to "vote with their dollars" for changes in food systems far from home, but depends on certification and labeling from unseen institutions. As an object of governmentality, food has never been so prominent. The thirty-five handbook chapters confront four major themes in the politics of food: property, technology, justice and knowledge. Ronald Herring's editorial introduction asks how food is political, highlighting contention around the role of market, state and information in societal decisions. The first section of the handbook then examines technology, science and knowledge in food production. What is known - and disputed - about malnutrition, poverty and food security? The second section addresses ethics, rights and distributive justice: agrarian reform, gender inequality, entitlements and subsidies, and the social vision of the alternative food movement. The third section looks to intersections of agriculture and nature: wild foods, livestock, agro-ecological approaches to sustainability, and climate change and genetic engineering. |
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KOHA-OAI-ECOSUR:106722023-11-09T21:08:39ZThe Oxford handbook of food, politics, and society Herring, Ronald J. editor textNew York, New York, United States Oxford University Press2015engFood has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an international community imagined in the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Simultaneously, the numbers and interests of people asserting political stakes in food and agriculture have likewise shifted up and out. Global networks advocate social justice in distal agrarian systems, promotion of some farming techniques and prohibition of others, food sovereignty or efficiencies of markets and trade. Political consumerism allows the well-endowed to "vote with their dollars" for changes in food systems far from home, but depends on certification and labeling from unseen institutions. As an object of governmentality, food has never been so prominent. The thirty-five handbook chapters confront four major themes in the politics of food: property, technology, justice and knowledge. Ronald Herring's editorial introduction asks how food is political, highlighting contention around the role of market, state and information in societal decisions. The first section of the handbook then examines technology, science and knowledge in food production. What is known - and disputed - about malnutrition, poverty and food security? The second section addresses ethics, rights and distributive justice: agrarian reform, gender inequality, entitlements and subsidies, and the social vision of the alternative food movement. The third section looks to intersections of agriculture and nature: wild foods, livestock, agro-ecological approaches to sustainability, and climate change and genetic engineering.The fourth section addresses food values and culture: political consumerism, labeling and certification, the science and cultural politics of food safety, values driving regulation of genetically modified foods and potential coexistence of GMOs, and organic and conventional crops. The fifth and final section looks at frontiers of global contentions: rival transnational advocacy networks, social movements for organic farming, the who and why of international land grabbing, junctures of cosmopolitan and local food narratives, the "supermarket revolution" and the international agrifood industry in low-income countries, and politics of knowledge in agricultural futures.Incluye bibliografíaList of Contributors.. Introduction: Food, Politics, and Society.. 1. How Is Food Political? Market, State, and Knowledge.. Part I Production:: Technology, Knowledge, and Politics.. 2. Science, Politics, and the Framing of Modern Agricultural Technologies.. 3. Genetically Improved Crops.. 4. Agroecological Intensification of Smallholder Farming.. 5. The Hardest Case: What Blocks Improvements in Agriculture in Africa?.. 6. The Poor, Malnutrition, Biofortification, and Biotechnology.. 7. Biofuels: Competition for Cropland, Water, and Energy Resources.. 8. Alternative Paths to Food Security.. Part II Normative Knowledge: Ethics, Rights, and Distributive Justice.. 9. Ethics of Food Production and Consumption.. 10. Food, Justice, and Land.. 11. Food Security, Productivity, and Gender Inequality.. 12. Delivering Food Subsidy: The State and the Market.. 13. Diets, Nutrition, and Poverty: Lessons from India.. 14. Food Price and Trade Policy Biases: Inefficient, Inequitable, Yet not Inevitable.. 15. Intellectual Property Rights and the Politics of Food.. 16. Is Food the Answer to Malnutrition? Part III Nature: Food, Agriculture, and the Environment.. 17. Fighting Mother Nature with Biotechnology.. 18. Climate Change and Agriculture: Countering Doomsday Scenarios.. 19. Wild Foods.. 20. Livestock in the Food Debate.. 21. The Social Vision of the Alternative Food Movement Part IV Food Values:: Ideas, Interests, and Culture.. 22. Food Values Beyond Nutrition.. 23. Cultural Politics of Food Safety: Genetically Modified Food in France, Japan, and the United States.. 24. Food Safety.. 25. The Politics of Food Labeling and Certification.. 26. The Politics of Grocery Shopping: Eating, Voting, and (Possibly Transforming the Food System.. 27. The Political Economy of Regulation of Biotechnology in Agriculture.. 28. Co-Existence in the Fields? GM, Organic, and Conventional Food CropsPart V Global Meets Local: Contestations, Movements, and Expertise.. 29. Global Movements for Food Justice.. 30. The Rise of the Organic Foods Movement as a Transnational Phenomenon.. 31. The Dialectic of Pro-Poor Papaya.. 32. Thinking the African Food Crisis: The Sahel Forty Years On.. 33. Transformation of the Agrifood Industry in Developing Countries.. 34. The Twenty-First Century Agricultural Land Rush.. 35. Agricultural Futures: The Politics of Knowledge.. IndexFood has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an international community imagined in the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Simultaneously, the numbers and interests of people asserting political stakes in food and agriculture have likewise shifted up and out. Global networks advocate social justice in distal agrarian systems, promotion of some farming techniques and prohibition of others, food sovereignty or efficiencies of markets and trade. Political consumerism allows the well-endowed to "vote with their dollars" for changes in food systems far from home, but depends on certification and labeling from unseen institutions. As an object of governmentality, food has never been so prominent. The thirty-five handbook chapters confront four major themes in the politics of food: property, technology, justice and knowledge. Ronald Herring's editorial introduction asks how food is political, highlighting contention around the role of market, state and information in societal decisions. The first section of the handbook then examines technology, science and knowledge in food production. What is known - and disputed - about malnutrition, poverty and food security? The second section addresses ethics, rights and distributive justice: agrarian reform, gender inequality, entitlements and subsidies, and the social vision of the alternative food movement. The third section looks to intersections of agriculture and nature: wild foods, livestock, agro-ecological approaches to sustainability, and climate change and genetic engineering.The fourth section addresses food values and culture: political consumerism, labeling and certification, the science and cultural politics of food safety, values driving regulation of genetically modified foods and potential coexistence of GMOs, and organic and conventional crops. The fifth and final section looks at frontiers of global contentions: rival transnational advocacy networks, social movements for organic farming, the who and why of international land grabbing, junctures of cosmopolitan and local food narratives, the "supermarket revolution" and the international agrifood industry in low-income countries, and politics of knowledge in agricultural futures.Abastecimiento de alimentosIndustrias alimenticiasPolítica alimentariaPolítica agrícolaURN:ISBN:0195397770URN:ISBN:9780195397772 |