Concentration and Power in the Food System - Who Controls What We Eat?, Revised Edition

Informationen zum Autor Philip H. Howard is Associate Professor at Michigan State University, USA. He is also President of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. Vorwort Updated and expanded overview of the rising concentration of power in the food system and the counter-movements this has unleashed. Zusammenfassung Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, exert control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes the strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to further increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trends are not inevitable. Opposed by numerous efforts, from microbreweries to seed saving networks, it explores how opposition to this has encouraged even the most powerful firms to make small but positive changes.This revised edition has been updated to reflect recent developments in the food system, as well as the broad political economic forces that shape them. It also examines the rapidly changing technologies, such as Big Data and automation, which have the potential to reinforce, as well as to challenge, the power of the largest firms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Food System Concentration: A Political Economy Perspective2. Reinterpreting Antitrust: Retailing3. Structuring Dependency: Distribution4. Engineering Consumption: Packaged Food and Beverages5. Manipulating Prices: Commodity Processing6. Subsidizing the Treadmill: Farming and Ranching7. Enforcing the New Enclosures: Agricultural Inputs8. Standardizing Resistance: The Organic Food Chain9. Endgame?BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Philip H Howard, Philip H. Howard
• Assisted by: David Goodman (Editor), Michael K. Goodman (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781350183063
• ISBN: 978-1-350-18306-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics; Contemporary Food Studies: Eco
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political activism, Food & society, Sustainable agriculture, Cultural studies: food and society, Political activism / Political engagement