Food and Agriculture in a Globalising World

A Companion to Environmental Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 552-566

  Le Heron, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agri food chains; Cultural and moral economy of food; Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) estimating over 850 million people worldwide suffer from hunger and malnutrition; Food, after water second concern of daily life for humans; Geopolitics of food security brought back onto research agenda; Globalising agriculture and food; Globalising entities dominating food and agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952683350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305722.ch32     Document Type: Chapter

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