A Review of “The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming”
By D. Niles. 2009
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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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Citations in the corpus
- The Tuna 'Commodity Frontier': Business Strategies and Environment in the Industrial Tuna Fisheries of the Western Indian Ocean (2012, background): “My approach also connects to a body of work on the agro-food system, especially that concerned with how capitalist agriculture attempts to overcome (and profit from) the tension between the organic and the synthetic (e.g. Kloppenburg 2004; Weis 2007).”
- Food crises, food regimes and food movements: rumblings of reform or tides of transformation? (2011, unknown): “By 1999, farms greater than 500 acres controlled 79 percent of all US farmland (USDA 2002a, 2002b, Weis 2007, 83).”
- Making sense of the "clean label" trends: A review of consumer food choice behavior and discussion of industry implications. (2017, background): “) (Kearney, 2010; Weis, 2007) and allergies and intolerances towards some specific food products or components such as gluten.”
- A food regime genealogy (2009, unknown): “…of cultural and ecological knowledges about living and working with natural cycles by wiping out smallholder diversified farming, shown to be more productive and more environmental than specialised industrial farming (Pretty et al. 2006, Weis 2007, 164–8, Altieri 2008, and cf. IAASTD 2008).”
- Food as Commons or Commodity? Exploring the Links between Normative Valuations and Agency in Food Transition (2017, background): “The conventional industrialised food system, dominated by mega corporations, is basically operating to accumulate and under-price calorie-based food resources and maximise the profit of food enterprises instead of maximising the nutrition and health benefits of food to all [103-106].”