List of contributors .......................................... vii
Acknowledgements ............................................... xv
1 The globalisation of agriculture: introducing the Handbook ... 1
Guy M. Robinson and Doris A. Carson
PART I THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF AGRICULTURE
2 Agriculture and environment: fundamentals and future
perspectives ................................................ 31
Ros Taylor and Jane Entwistle
3 Effects of agricultural activities on biodiversity and
ecosystems: organic versus conventional farming ............. 77
Tiziano Gomiero
4 Measuring and managing the global agricultural footprint
of countries' consumption .................................. 106
Stefan Bringezu, Helmut Schütz and Meghan O'Brien
5 Meeting the food security challenge through sustainable
intensification ............................................ 125
Noel Russell and Amani Omer
PART II GLOBALISATION AND POLICY REGIMES
6 Agricultural trade ......................................... 143
Wyn Grant
7 US agricultural policy and the globalization of world
agriculture ................................................ 157
Bill Winders
8 Contributions of trade reforms to agriculture's
globalisation .............................................. 175
Kym Anderson
9 Heroes, villains and victims: agricultural subsidies and
their impacts on food security and poverty reduction ....... 194
Andrew Dorward and Jamie Morrison
10 Agricultural production in China under globalisation ....... 214
Hualou Long, Yansui Liu and Tingling Li
PART III GLOBALISATION AND TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
11 Geographies and histories of the Green Revolution: from
global flows to place-based experiences ................... 237
Pratyusha Basu and James Klepek
12 Biotechnology and the global food riots: why genetically
modified foods will not end world hunger .................. 255
Simon Nicholson
13 Private agri-food governance and the challenges for
sustainability ............................................ 274
Agni Kalfagianni and Doris Fuchs
14 Trade-related intellectual property: implications for
the global seed industry, food sovereignty and farmers'
rights .................................................... 291
Claire R. Parfitt and Daniel F. Robinson
15 The financialisation of food and farming .................. 309
Geoffrey Lawrence, Sarah Ruth Sippel and David Burch
16 All you need is export? Moroccan farmers juggling global
and local markets ......................................... 328
Sarah Ruth Sippel
17 Inequality regimes in food processing industries .......... 350
Lia Bryant
18 Global companies and local community relations: power,
access and partnership in food production and rural
resource development ...................................... 368
Roy E. Rickson, Kara E. Rickson, Peter Hoppe and David
Burch
PART IV CHALLENGES TO THE GLOBALISATION OF AGRICULTURE
19 Multifunctional agricultural transition: essential for
local diversity in a globalised world ..................... 389
Simon J. Fielke
20 Recreating diversity for resilient and adaptive
agricultural systems ...................................... 404
Douglas К. Bardsley
21 The changing dynamics of alternative agri-food networks:
a European perspective .................................... 425
Brian Libery and Damian Maye
22 Building sustainable communities through alternative
food systems .............................................. 446
Alison Blay-Palmer and Irena Knezevic
23 The 'White Revolution' and dual dairy economy structures .. 461
Bruce A. Scholten
Index ........................................................ 483
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