Food, Globalization and Sustainability

by Peter Oosterveer and David A. Sonnenfeld

Book Overview

Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices. This transition is generating unfamiliar challenges related to sustainability of food provision, the social impacts of international trade and global food governance. Distance in time and space between food producers and consumers is increasing and new concerns are arising. These...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849712611
• ISBN13: 9781849712613
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"