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Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes: Food Security, Climate Change and the Future Resilience of Global Agriculture
Reider Alm S
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Description for Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes: Food Security, Climate Change and the Future Resilience of Global Agriculture
Hardback. Through international case studies, this book evaluates how various policy challenges are having an impact on specific agricultural policy regimes, and what future lessons might be learnt from key policy experiments around neoliberalism and multifunctionality. Editor(s): Almas, Reider; Campbell, Hugh. Series Editor(s): Marsden, Terry. Series: Research in Rural Sociology & Development. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: RPG; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 596.
For many decades debates about the future of developed world agriculture policy have been dominated by a long political conflict between European/multifunctional policy regimes and the global trend towards trade liberalisation. The stalemate that had emerged between these two positions by 2000 has now been dramatically reconfigured. This book argues that there are four reasons why this area of policy has now reopened to wider debate: The World Food Crisis of 2008-2011 has signalled a potential end to the era of cheap food. The emergence of climate change as a core policy concern has shifted key targets for agricultural policy. ... Read more
For many decades debates about the future of developed world agriculture policy have been dominated by a long political conflict between European/multifunctional policy regimes and the global trend towards trade liberalisation. The stalemate that had emerged between these two positions by 2000 has now been dramatically reconfigured. This book argues that there are four reasons why this area of policy has now reopened to wider debate: The World Food Crisis of 2008-2011 has signalled a potential end to the era of cheap food. The emergence of climate change as a core policy concern has shifted key targets for agricultural policy. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Series
Research in Rural Sociology & Development
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780523484
SKU
V9781780523484
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