Agriculture in the New Global Economy

By: Willian Coleman, Wyn P Grant and Tim E Josling

192 pages

Publisher: Edward Elgar

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ISBN: 9781843766780 Hardback Sep 2004 Expected delivery 13th March - 16th March
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Highlights the important changes that have taken place in the agriculture and food system with the spread of globalisation to this traditionally local sector. Structural change and emerging technologies have contributed to this transformation, which has extended to the political environment in which agriculture operates. The authors identify four paradigms that have characterised the governance of agriculture: a traditional dependent-agriculture paradigm; a neo-liberal competitive paradigm; a multifunctional paradigm; and an emergent globalised-production paradigm. The tensions among these paradigms are developed with reference to evidence from the United States and Canada, the EU, Australia, Japan and the Global South.

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Economic Globalisation: Changing Patterns of Trade, Industry Structure and Farming; 3. Technology and Political Resistance; 4. The Globalisation of Ideas; 5. Globalisation, Regionalisation and Trade Rules; 6. A Transnational Policy Space: The Actors; 7. A Transnational Policy Space: Structure References Index