Soybean Through World History - Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization.

List of contents

1. Combining insights from political economy and environmental history: what can the soybean tell us about changes in the global agrofood system?
2. The first soybean cycle (domestication to 900 CE)
3. The second soybean cycle (1000-1860)
4. The roots of the third soybean cycle (1860-1949)
5. The regime of the third soybean cycle (1950-today)
6. Historicizing soy: towards a new rupture?

About the author

Matilda Baraibar Norberg is Associate Professor at the Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Lisa Deutsch is Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Summary

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization.

Product details

• Authors: Matilda Baraibar Norberg, Matilda (Stockholm University Baraibar Norberg, Lisa Deutsch
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032509358
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3250935-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Sociology, Globalization, NATURE / Plants / General, NATURE / Ecology, Applied ecology, Politics & government, Environmental Economics, environmental science, engineering & technology, International Economics, Political Economy, Environmental Management, Social impact of environmental issues, Science / Environmental Science, Politics and government, Agricultural science, Environmental policy & protocols, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Agriculture & Related Industries, Agribusiness and primary industries, International Trade, Agronomy & crop production, Soil science, sedimentology, Environmental policy and protocols, Agronomy and crop production, Agricultural engineering and machinery, Agricultural Engineering & Machinery, Sedimentology and pedology