Trade, Food, Diet and Health: Perspectives and Policy Options

by Corinna Hawkes, Chantal Blouin, Nick Drager, et al.

The aim of this book is to examine how the global food trade regime - the trade of food across national borders, international and regional trade agreements, the process of trade and investment liberalization and the growth of transnational food corporations - affects what people eat and, by implication, their health. The context is the broader association between globalization and the growing prevalence of obesity and diet-related chronic diseases...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405199865
• ISBN13: 9781405199865
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.7"