The Oxford Handbook of Food, Politics, and Society

905 Pages·2015·5.22 MB·English

by  Ronald J. Herring

The Oxford Handbook of
F O O D, P O L I T I C S ,
A N D S O C I E T Y

The Oxford Handbook of
FOOD,
POLITICS, AND
SOCIETY
Edited by
RONALD J. HERRING
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1. Food supply—Political aspects. 2. Food industry and trade. 3. Agricultural and politics.
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors ix
INTRODUCTION: FOOD, POLITICS,
AND SOCIETY
1. How Is Food Political? Market, State, and Knowledge 3
Ronald J. Herring
PART I PRODUCTION: TECHNOLOGY,
KNOWLEDGE, AND POLITICS
2. Science, Politics, and the Framing of Modern
Agricultural Technologies 43
John Harriss and Drew Stewart
3. Genetically Improved Crops 65
Martina Newell-McGloughlin
4. Agroecological Intensification of Smallholder Farming 105
Rebecca Nelson and Richard Coe
5. The Hardest Case: What Blocks Improvements in
Agriculture in Africa? 129
Robert L. Paarlberg
6. The Poor, Malnutrition, Biofortification, and Biotechnology 149
Alexander J. Stein
7. Biofuels: Competition for Cropland, Water, and Energy Resources 181
David Pimentel and Michael Burgess
8. Alternative Paths to Food Security 202
Norman Uphoff
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PART II NORMATIVE KNOWLEDGE: ETHICS,
RIGHTS, AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
9. Ethics of Food Production and Consumption 231
Michiel Korthals
10. Food, Justice, and Land 253
Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco
11. Food Security, Productivity, and Gender Inequality 273
Bina Agarwal
12. Delivering Food Subsidy: The State and the Market 301
Ashok Kotwal and Bharat Ramaswami
13. Diets, Nutrition, and Poverty: Lessons from India 327
Raghav Gaiha, Raghbendra Jha, Vani S. Kulkarni, and
Nidhi Kaicker
14. Food Price and Trade Policy Biases: Inefficient, Inequitable,
yet not Inevitable 362
Kym Anderson
15. Intellectual Property Rights and the Politics of Food 381
Krishna Ravi Srinivas
16. Is Food the Answer to Malnutrition? 407
David E. Sahn
PART III NATURE: FOOD, AGRICULTURE,
AND THE ENVIRONMENT
17. Fighting Mother Nature with Biotechnology 431
Alan McHughen
18. Climate Change and Agriculture: Countering Doomsday Scenarios 453
Derrill D. Watson II
19. Wild Foods 475
Jules Pretty and Zareen Pervez Bharucha
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20. Livestock in the Food Debate 505
Purvi Mehta-Bhatt and Pier Paolo Ficarelli
21. The Social Vision of the Alternative Food Movement 523
Siddhartha Shome
PART IV FOOD VALUES: IDEAS, INTERESTS,
AND CULTURE
22. Food Values beyond Nutrition 545
Ann Grodzins Gold
23. Cultural Politics of Food Safety: Genetically Modified Food
in Japan, France, and the United States 562
Kyoko Sato
24. Food Safety 587
Bruce M. Chassy
25. The Politics of Food Labeling and Certification 615
Emily Clough
26. The Politics of Grocery Shopping: Eating, Voting, and (Possibly)
Transforming the Food System 644
Josée Johnston and Norah MacKendrick
27. The Political Economy of Regulation of Biotechnology
in Agriculture 664
Gregory D. Graff, Gal Hochman, and David Zilberman
28. Co-existence in the Fields? GM, Organic, and Conventional
Food Crops 689
Janice E. Thies
PART V GLOBAL MEETS
LOCAL: CONTESTATIONS, MOVEMENTS,
AND EXPERTISE
29. Global Movements for Food Justice 717
M. Jahi Chappell
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30. The Rise of the Organic Foods Movement as a
Transnational Phenomenon 739
Tomas Larsson
31. The Dialectic of Pro-Poor Papaya 755
Sarah Davidson Evanega and Mark Lynas
32. Thinking the African Food Crisis: The Sahel Forty Years On 772
Michael J. Watts
33. Transformation of the Agrifood Industry in Developing Countries 795
Thomas Reardon and C. Peter Timmer
34. The Twenty-first Century Agricultural Land Rush 822
Gregory Thaler
35. Agricultural Futures: The Politics of Knowledge 844
Ian Scoones
Index 861
List of Contributors
Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the
University of Manchester.
Kym Anderson is George Gollin Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide
and Professor of Economics at the Australian National University.
Zareen Pervez Bharucha is Senior Research Officer in the Department of Sociology at
the University of Essex.
Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is Associate Professor at the International Institute of Social
Studies in The Hague in The Netherlands.
Michael Burgess is Assistant Professor of Biological Science at the State University of
New York, Plattsburgh.
M. Jahi Chappell is Director of Agroecology and Agriculture Policy at the Institute for
Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Visiting Scientist at the School of the Environment at
Washington State University.
Bruce M. Chassy is Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois.
Emily Clough is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard
University.
Richard Coe is Principle Scientist of Research Methods at the World Agroforestry
Center (ICRAF) at the University of Reading.
Sarah Davidson Evanega is International Professor of Plant Breeding (adjunct) in the
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, and Senior Associate Director of International
Programs at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University.
Pier Paolo Ficarelli is Knowledge Management Specialist at the International Livestock
Research Institute.
Jennifer C. Franco is Coordinator of the Agrarian Justice Program at the Transnational
Institute, Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor at China Agricultural University.
Raghav Gaiha is Professor of Public Policy in the Faculty of Management Studies
at the University of Delhi, and Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ann Grodzins Gold is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Professor of
Anthropology at Syracuse University.