Globalisation, Localisation and Sustainable Livelihoods (Hardcover)

Figures and Tables, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgements, PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND FOOD, 1. Introduction: The Global/Local Problematic, 2. Fast Food/Slow Food: Standardizing and Differentiating Cultures of Food, 3. Restructuring of the Sugar Supply to the Industrially-Processed Food Chain: The Brazilian Case, 4. Forging New Local/Global Links Through Fair Trade Agro-Food Networks, 5. The Power of Food, PART II: THE RESTRUCTURING OF LOCAL AGRICULTURE, 6. Assessing the Neoliberal Experiment in Antipodean Agriculture, 7. Resisting Integration in the Global Agro-Food System: Corporate Chickens and Community Controversy in Texas, 8. Globalization and Agro-Food Systems in Argentina, 9. Technological Transformation of Household Milk Production in the South of Brazil: Social Impacts, 10. Co-operatives to Companies: The South African Wine Industry in the Face of Globalization, PART III: COMMUNITIES AND RESISTANCE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD, 11. Two Roads to the Global Village: A Comparison of How a Coastal and a Mountain Region of Norway Have Found Strategies to Cope with Globalization, 12. Local Consequences and Responses to Global Integration: The Role of the State in the Less Favoured Zones, 13. Global Change, Social Exclusion and Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural Britain, 14. Countering Localized Impacts of Globalization: Some Rural Community Development Initiatives in Australia, 15. The Problem of Trust at the Margins of the Network Economy: Trust and Confidence among Rural Entrepreneurs in Finland, Index