Corn Meets Maize - Food Movements and Markets in Mexico

Informationen zum Autor Lauren E. Baker is the coordinator of the Toronto Food Policy Council at Toronto Public Health. She teaches at the University of Toronto and is a research associate with the Centre for Studies in Food Security at Ryerson University. Klappentext Corn Meets Maize links the everyday practices of growing, cooking, and exchanging food in specific cultural, economic, and ecological contexts to broader social movements in Mexico and beyond. The local food networks Lauren E. Baker explores in Mexico are rich examples of contemporary agricultural and culinary transformations; they also reveal the impacts of neoliberal economic policies and new agricultural biotechnologies. Drawing on concrete examples of projects and people working to transform global food systems, she provides important insight into the complexities of food politics from field to fork. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Why Food? Why Maize and Corn?Chapter 2: Milpas, Markets and MovementsChapter 3: Nuestro MaízChapter 4: Itanoní TortilleríaChapter 5: The Michoacán Centre for AgribusinessChapter 6: Biocultural Agrifood RelationsReferences

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Baker, Lauren E. Baker, Baker Lauren E.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2012
• EAN: 9781442206519
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0651-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, Food & society, Sustainable agriculture, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Agriculture & Related Industries, Cultural studies: food and society