Food regimes and agrarian questions / Philip McMichael.

By:

McMichael, Philip [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Agrarian change & peasant studies ; 2 | Agrarian change and peasant studies series ; 2.Publisher: Halifax : Fernwood Publishing, 2013Description: xii, 196 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781552665756 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.19 MCM 23 009446

Contents:

Introduction: The Food Regime Project Historical Forms of the Food Regime The Corporate Food Regime Food Regime and the Agrarian Question Food Regime Formulations Crisis and Restructuring The Food Regime and Value Relations: Which Values?

Summary: "Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions extends the original conception of the food regime, formulated by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, detailing new dimensions of the succession of imperial, intensive and corporate food regimes. Developing the methodological contributions of food regime analysis, McMichael re-examines the agrarian question historically and its present-day implications, introduces regional interpretations of the food regime and incorporates gender, labour, financial, ecological and nutritional dimensions into his analysis. Finally, McMichael explores the relationships between contemporary food, energy, climate and financial crises and food regime restructuring, which includes agrofuels, land grabbing, the bioeconomy, agro-security mercantilism and the food sovereignty movement."

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	338.19 MCM 009446 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		009446

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-188) and index.

Introduction: The Food Regime Project
Historical Forms of the Food Regime
The Corporate Food Regime
Food Regime and the Agrarian Question
Food Regime Formulations
Crisis and Restructuring
The Food Regime and Value Relations: Which Values?

"Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions extends the original conception of the food regime, formulated by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, detailing new dimensions of the succession of imperial, intensive and corporate food regimes. Developing the methodological contributions of food regime analysis, McMichael re-examines the agrarian question historically and its present-day implications, introduces regional interpretations of the food regime and incorporates gender, labour, financial, ecological and nutritional dimensions into his analysis. Finally, McMichael explores the relationships between contemporary food, energy, climate and financial crises and food regime restructuring, which includes agrofuels, land grabbing, the bioeconomy, agro-security mercantilism and the food sovereignty movement."

Co-published by: Kumarian.

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