New! Improved? The Transformation of the Global Agrifood System*

By Lawrence Busch, C. Bain. 2004

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Subfields: Plant Science, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Fair Trade Standards, Corporate Participation, and Social Movement Responses in the United States (2010, background): “Busch and Bain (2004) chart the emergence of private food standards, particularly those created by retailing firms, that they assert now play a greater role than either states or supra-state bodies such as the WTO in reshaping our food systems.”
Who Governs Socially-Oriented Voluntary Sustainability Standards? Not the Producers of Certified Products (2017, background): “…such as corporations, may co-opt less experienced or less wealthy stakeholders, such as small NGOs, pushing through weak regulations while touting NGO participation as a signal of legitimacy (Busch & Bain, 2004; Jaffee, 2012; Jaffee & Howard, 2009; Nelson & Tallontire, 2014; O’Rourke, 2006).”
Sustainability governance of chains and networks: a review and future outlook (2015, background): “…actors in determining control over allocating financial, material and human resources in global chains (Boons and Mendoza, 2010; Gereffi et al., 2005), and second, on the design, content and implementation of quality standards and certification schemes (e.g. Busch and Bain, 2004; Marsden, 2004).”
"Trade matters in the fight against poverty": narratives, perceptions, and (lack of) evidence in the case of fish trade in Africa. (2010, background): “…still express strong reservation regard- ing the real benefits of open economies and trade for developing countries, in particular in relation to agricultural commodities which usually represent a major part of their exports (Busch & Bain, 2004; Leclair, 2002; Oxfam, 2002; Ponte, 2002; Sick, 1997).”
Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains (2014, background): “…thereby giving them tremendous power over the types and quality of food produced, the manner in which food is produced, the location of food production, the terms of food exchange and, ultimately, the distribution of surplus within the food system (Busch and Bain 2004, Burch and Lawrence 2005).”
Performing the economy, performing science: from neoclassical to supply chain models in the agrifood sector (2007, background): “Now the big three global supermarket chains Wal-Mart, Carrefour and Royal Ahold have retail operations in and source their products from many nations (Busch and Bain 2004). Similarly, large institutional retailers such as Sysco and Metro source and sell globally. And one finds a similar trend in the”