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In today's globally integrated food system, events in one part of the world can have multiple and wide-ranging effects, as has been shown by the recent and rapid global rise in food prices. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have been central to the development of this global food system, dominating production, international trade, processing, distribution, and retail sectors. Moreover, these global corporations play a key role in the establishment of rules and regulations by which they themselves are governed. This book examines how TNCs exercise power over global food and agriculture governance and what the consequences are for the sustainability of the global food system. The book defines three aspects of this corporate power: instrumental power, or direct influence; structural power, or the broader influence corporations have over setting agendas and rules; and discursive, or communicative and persuasive, power. The book begins by examining the nature of corporate power in cases ranging from "green" food certification in Southeast Asia and corporate influence on U.S. food aid policy to governance in the seed industry and international food safety standards. Chapters examine such issues as promotion of corporate-defined "environmental sustainability" and "food security," biotechnology firms and intellectual property rights, and consumer resistance to GMOs and other cases of contestation in agrobiology. In a final chapter, the editors raise the crucial question of how to achieve participation, transparency, and accountability in food governance. ContributorsMaarten Arentsen, Jennifer Clapp, Robert Falkner, Doris Fuchs, Agni Kalfagianni, Peter Newell, Steffanie Scott, Susan Sell, Elizabeth Smythe, Peter Vandergeest, Marc Williams, Mary Young
| ISBN | 0262512378 | | Pages | 328 | | ISBN13 | 9780262512374
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | MIT Press Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 454 | | Imprint | MIT Press | | Published in | Cambridge, Mass. | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Food, Health, and the Environment Series | | Publication date | 19 Jun 2009 | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Library of Congress | 2008042146 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY | 382.41 | | Spine width (mm) | 14 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | List of Acronyms | | | | 1 | | Agrifood Corporations, Global Governance, and Sustainability: A Framework for Analysis by Jennifer Clapp and Doris Fuchs | | 1 | | I | | Corporate Power in International Retail and Trade Governance | | 27 | | 2 | | Retail Power, Private Standards, and Sustainability in the Global Food System by Doris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni and Maarten Arentsen | | 29 | | 3 | | Certification Standards and the Governance of Green Foods in Southeast Asia by Steffanie Scott and Peter Vandergeest and Mary Young | | 61 | | 4 | | In Whose Interests? Transparency and Accountability in the Global Governance of Food: Agribusiness, the Codex Alimentarius, and the World Trade Organization by Elizabeth Smythe | | 93 | | 5 | | Corporate Interests in US Food Aid Policy: Global Implications of Resistance to Reform by Jennifer Clapp | | 125 | | II | | Corporations and Governance of Genetically Modified Organisms | | 153 | | 6 | | Feeding the World? Transnational Corporations and the Promotion of Genetically Modified Food by Marc Williams | | 155 | | 7 | | Corporations, Seeds, and Intellectual Property Rights Governance by Susan K. Sell | | 187 | | 8 | | The Troubled Birth of the "Biotech Century": Global Corporate Power and Its Limits by Robert Falkner | | 225 | | 9 | | Technology, Food, Power: Governing GMOs in Argentina by Peter Newell | | 253 | | 10 | | Corporate Power and Global Agrifood Governance: Lessons Learned by Doris Fuchs and Jennifer Clapp | | 285 | | | | Index | | 297 |
"Given the recent shocks to the global food system, this is a timely project--one that covers a broad range of aspects in agrifood governance." -- Harriet Friedmann, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto -- Harriet Friedmann "For the first time in the agrifood sector, this book convincingly argues how TNCs' commitment to corporate sustainable development is in fact a means to better control the governance of the global food system... thus leaving profits at the top and peoples and the environment at the bottom of the food chain!" -- Matthias Finger, Dean, School of Continuing Education, Chair, Management of Network Industries, College of Management of Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland -- Matthias Finger "This is an important book for those who need to see the pieces of the global food system and the critical role of the agrifood transnational corporations (TNCs) in global food trade." -- John M. O'Sullivan, Agriculture and Human Values "Corporate power is an exceptionally strong volume that I recommend highly without hesitation." -- Adam Sneyd, European Journal of Risk Regulation "For the first time in the agrifood sector, this book convincingly argues how transnational corporations' commitment to corporate sustainable development is in fact a means to better control the governance of the global food system... thus leaving profits at the top and people and the environment at the bottom of the food chain!" -- Matthias Finger , Dean, School of Continuing Education, Chair, Management of Network Industries, College of Management of Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland "Given the recent shocks to the global food system, this is a timely project -- one that covers a broad range of aspects in agrifood governance." -- Harriet Friedmann , Department of Sociology, University of Toronto "Given the recent shocks to the global food system, this is a timely project--one that covers a broad range of aspects in agrifood governance." Harriet Friedmann , Department of Sociology, University of Toronto  Be the first to write a customer review
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