From Columbus to ConAgra : the globalization of agriculture and food / edited by Alessandro Bonanno [and others].

Other author Bonanno, Alessandro.
Format Book
Publication InfoLawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, ©1994.
Descriptionviii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesRural America
Rural America (Lawrence, Kan.) ^A305420
Contents Transnational corporations and the globalization of the food system / William D. Heffernan, Douglas H. Constance -- Rural subsistence, migration, urbanization, and the new global food regime / Enzo Mingione, Enrico Publiese -- The state of agricultural science and the agricultural science of the state / Lawrence Busch -- Biotechnologies, mulitnationals, and the agrofood systems of developing countries / Bernardo Sorj, John Wilkinson -- Food regulation in Britain : a national system in an international context / Terry Marsden, Andrew Flynn, Neil Ward -- Global strategies and local linkages : the case of the U.S. meatpacking industry / Lourdes Gouveia -- The behavior of U.S. food firms in international markets / Michael R. Reed, Mary A. Marchant -- An introduction to the Japanese juice industry : trading firms, the state, and new liberalization policies / Raymond A. Jussaume, Jr. -- Opening economies and closing markets : Latin American agriculture's difficult search for a place in the emerging global order / Luis Llambi -- The new globalization : the case of fresh produce / William H. Friedland.
Contents New fruits and vanity : symbolic production in the global food economy / Ian Cook -- The locus of polity action in a global setting / Alessandro Bonanno -- Globalization as a discourse / Mustafa Koc.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 93046569
ISBN0700606602 (hard. : alk. paper) :
ISBN0700606610 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

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Joyner General Stacks HD9000.5 .F76 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold