Morgan, Kevin.

Worlds of food : place, power, and provenance in the food chain / Kevin Morgan, Terry Marsden, and Jonathan Murdoch. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006. - 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Oxford geographical and environmental studies .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-215) and index.

List of figures. - List of tables. - List of abbreviations. - Introduction. - 1. Networks, conventions and regions : theorizing 'worlds of food'. - 2. The regulatory world of agri-food : politics, power, and conventions. - 3. Geographies of agri-food. - 4. Localized quality in Tuscany. - 5. California : the parallel worlds of rival agri-food paradigms. - 6. The commodity world in Wales. - 7. Beyond the placeless foodscape : place, power, and provenance. - References. - Index.

0199271585 (hbk.) 9780199271580 (alk. paper)


Food supply.
Agricultural industries.
Food industry and trade.
Sustainable agriculture.

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