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The sustainability of the agrifood system: determinants of the interaction between global and local agrifood governance
[working paper]
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Universität Münster, FB Erziehungswissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Abstract "The sustainability of today’s global agrifood system is shaped by a complex web of global
and local forces. These forces include local values and practices, transnational corporations
(TNCs), agricultural policies and politics of the EU as well as the activities of the United
Nations Development Pr... view more
"The sustainability of today’s global agrifood system is shaped by a complex web of global
and local forces. These forces include local values and practices, transnational corporations
(TNCs), agricultural policies and politics of the EU as well as the activities of the United
Nations Development Program, for instance. This paper aims to develop a framework for
analyzing the interaction of various global and local forces in shaping the agrifood system and
its sustainability characteristics. This framework allows the systematic and comprehensive
identification of the relative impact of global versus local, material versus normative, and
actor-specific versus structural forces. In a second step, the paper illustrates the framework’s
reach in an investigation of determinants of policies and practices regarding genetically
modified organisms (GMOs) in India. GMO practices and policies represent a contested
ground where local and “international” values and interests frequently clash. In consequence,
the commercial introduction of GMOs in India presents an excellent case study for the
interaction of forces in the agrifood system." [author's abstract]... view less
Keywords
EU; sustainability; governance; agrarian structure; determinants; agricultural industry; social actor; UNO; agricultural policy; India
Classification
Sociology of Economics
Method
documentation
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
City
Münster
Page/Pages
22 p.
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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