This book demonstrates the need for a new food policy to address the challenges for the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change and industrialisation.
- A collection of papers demonstrating the need for a new food policy.
- Looks at the challenges for the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change, and industrialisation.
- Suggests that food policy now needs to encompass issues such as obesity, food safety, and competition policy in the retail sector.
- Warns that meeting these challenges needs to be on the agenda of policy makers throughout the world.
- Written by experts from Denmark, Italy, the UK and the US.
- Features a table summarising old and new food policy.
- Draws on new research data.
1. Food Policy Old and New: Simon Maxwell and Rachel Slater.
2. Food Industrialisation and Food Power: Implications for Food Governance: Tim Lang.
3. Food and Poverty: Insights from the ‘North’: Elizabeth Dowler.
4. The Nutrition Transition in the Developing World: Barry M. Popkin.
5. Redirecting the Diet Transition: What Can Food Policy Do?: Lawrence Haddad.
6. Value-chain Governance, Public Regulation and Entry Barriers in the Global Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Chain into the EU: Peter Gibbon.
7. Changing Food Systems in India: Resource-sharing and Marketing Arrangements for Vegetable Production in Andhra Pradesh: Priya Deshingkar, Usha Kulkarni, Laxman Rao and Sreenivas Rao.
8. Small Producer Participation in Global Food Systems: Policy Opportunities and Constraints: Sheila Page and Rachel Slater.
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