The Oxford Handbook of Food, Politics, and Society

Politics decides who gets what and how. At the most elemental level, food has, for most of our history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means of acquisition or entitlement? The scale of the polity in question has shifted over time, from very local divisions to that of the international community imagined in the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Simultaneously, the numbers and factional interests of people asserting political stakes in food and agriculture have likewise shifted up and out. For example, Europeans have used a variety of policy and social-movement tactics to influence what Africans eat; American diplomats have applied pressure to delegitimize European political choices about what not to eat; and conflicts over safety regulations have muddied the line between agricultural protectionism and justifiable precaution in confronting novel foods. As an object of governmentality, food has never been so prominent. The thirty-five chapters in this handbook confront three major themes in the political regulation of food: ecology, technology and property. Following Ronald J. Herring's editorial introduction, the first section examines power struggles over knowledge and authority in food technology and production: who gets to be the voice of authority in agricultural research and scientific knowledge; who decides the best ways to alleviate hunger in poor countries; and who decides issues of food safety and nutritional standards. The second section addresses the political economy of food production: land power and production; distribution and trade; land reform; food entitlements and welfare policy; agricultural subsidies; and agribusiness. The third section looks at agriculture and the environment: ecological approaches to agricultural development; sustainable farming; biotechnology; climate change; livestock; and wild foods. The fourth section addresses food politics and global civil society: global food systems; cultural debates over genetically modified foods; food safety; food labeling; the politics of grocery shopping; regulation of biotechnology; and coexistence of GM, organic and conventional crops. The fifth and final section looks at food movements and the frontiers of food politics: global food movements; organic farming as a transnational phenomenon; the intersection of local and global food narratives; the agrifood industry in developing countries; the agricultural land rush; and agricultural futures. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/oso/public/content/oho_politics/9780195397772/toc.html Contributors to this volume - Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester. Kym Andersen is George Gollin Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide and Professor of Economics at the Australian National University. Zareen Bharucha is Senior Research Officer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is Associate Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague in The Netherlands. Michael Burgess is Assistant Professor of Biological Science at the State University of New York-Plattsburgh. M. Jahi Chappell is Director of Agroecology and Agriculture Policy at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Visiting Scientist at the School of the Environment at Washington State University. Bruce Chassy is Professor Emeritus or Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois. Emily Clough is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Robert Coe is Principle Scientist of Research Methods at the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) at the University of Reading. Sarah Evanega Davidson is International Professor of Plant Breeding (adjunct) in the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, and Senior Associate Director of International Programs at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Paulo Ficarelli is Knowledge Management Specialist at the International Livestock Research Institute. Jennifer C. Franco is Coordinator of the Agrarian Justice Program at the Transnational Institute, Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor at China Agricultural University. Raghav Gaiha is Professor of Public Policy in the Faculty of Management Studies at the University of Delhi, and Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ann Grodzins Gold is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. Gregory D. Graff is Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Colorado State University. John Harriss is Professor in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University. Ronald J. Herring is Professor of Government at Cornell University. Gal Hochman is Associate Professor of Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics at the Rutgers Energy Institute at Rutgers University. Raghbendra Jha is Professor at the Australia South Asia Research Centre in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics at the Australian National University. Josee Johnston is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Nidhi Kaicker is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Management Studies at the University of Delhi. Michiel Korthals is Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Wageningen. Ashok Kotwal is Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia. Vani S. Kulkarni is a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. Tomas Larsson is a Fellow of St John's College and Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Mark Lynas is a Visiting Fellow in International Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Norah MacKendrick is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. Alan McHughen is CE Plant Biotechnologist in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of California-Riverside. Purvi Mehta-Bhatt is Asia Head at the International Livestock Research Institute. Rebecca Nelson is Professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture at Cornell University. Martina Newell-McGloughlin is Director of the UC Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program, International Biotechnology Program, Department of Plant Sciences and Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis. Robert L. Paarlberg is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. David Pimentel is Professor Emeritus of Entomology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. Jules Pretty, OBE, is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability & Resources) and Professor of Science and Engineering at the University of Essex. Bharat Ramaswami is Professor in the Economics and Planning Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute. Thomas Reardon is Professor of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University and Renmin University of China. David E. Sahn is International Professor of Economics in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and Department of Economics at Cornell University. Kyoko Sato is Associate Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University. Ian Scoones is Professorial Fellow at the STEPS Center in the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex. Siddhartha Shome is an engineer and currently a student in Liberal Arts at Stanford University Krishna Ravi Srinivas is Associate Fellow of the Research & Information System for Developing Countries. Alexander Stein is a former Research Coordinator at the International Food Policy Research Institute. Drew Stewart is a graduate of the Department for International Development at the London School of Economics. Gregory Thaler is Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Janice Thies is Associate Professor of Soil Biology, Crop and Soil Sciences and International Professor of Soil Ecology at Cornell University. C. Peter Timmer is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Development Studies, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Norman Uphoff is Professor of Government and International Agriculture and Acting Director of the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs at Cornell University. Derrill D. Watson II is Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics at Tarleton State University. Michael J. Watts is "Class of 1963" Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. David Zilberman is the Robinson Chair of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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