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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Food regime"”.
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[De]stabilizing the neoliberal food regime: the struggle for the defense of corn in Mexico
… commercialization, and consumption of food. The transition however, required that Mexicans accept that new order as normal. This is a multi-sited ethnography and multi-methods qualitative study that examines the on-going process of naturalization of the neoliberal food regime in Mexico …
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Bringing regulation to the fore of food regime theory: The neoliberal model of development in agriculture and beyond in theory and practice
… theory in order to address impasses in food regime theory. This theoretical innovation enables me to identify McMichael’s (2005; 2009a; 2009b; 2013) third food regime as the neoliberal model of development in agriculture (NMD in agriculture); and also discuss a possible democratic, …
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Growing pains: the local food movement in northern Colorado
Global food and agribusiness corporations exhibit significant control over food production and consumption. Around the world, people contest this corporate food regime through efforts like local food movements. Critics often undermine the power of localism movements and claim that local food is a …
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The greenhouse tomato industry in Delta, British Columbia
… from Regulation theory (including the concept of food regimes) and the political economy of agriculture, I explore the origins and development of the industry in Delta. I argue that sub-national regulation has historically played a pivotal role in the agricultural development of the region. The …
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Vibrant Risks: Scientific Aquaculture and Political Ecologies in China
… extension shifted from disease control to food safety. The change from food quantity to quality reflects how the global food regime promotes a discourse of sustainability that is hinged on dynamic growth of limits in response to capitalist crisis. I explore how shrimp farmers have …
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Smallholder sugarcane growers, indigenous technical knowledge, and the sugar industry crisis in Fiji
… agricultural paradigm and a globalized corporate food regime that is the source of the problems it currently faces and which threatens the future of the smallholder sugarcane farming system along with its local traditional knowledge. The thesis draws inspiration from Agroecology as an agricultural …
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Spaces of difference, spaces of possibility? : An exploration of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) in the austerity foodscape of the United Kingdom
… of this thesis lies in understanding Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) as central in the ongoing reconfiguration of ‘civil society’ in the enduring period of austerity following the 2007-8 global financial crisis. Drawing on a qualitative research study in Lancashire, I show how the conceptual …
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Price and Income Dynamics in the Agri-Food System: A Disaggregate Perspective
… processes of redistribution in the agri-food sector, with particular reference to the US. It addresses the following questions: How has the rapid rise in food price instability since the turn of the twenty-first century impacted income shifts within the agri-food system? Which groups …
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Connecting for survival: Understanding the spatial implications of migrant women's food insecurity coping strategies in Medellin, Colombia, and Washington, DC
… on connecting to physical resources, especially food, and to important social ties. This dissertation provides a nuanced understanding of the spatial implications of this connectivity as made visible through mobility and social networks in two cities. Everyday experiences of food security can be …
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Sex-specific aging in two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae: Effects of diet, social environment and predator-induced stress
… how abiotic and biotic factors including food regime, social environment and predator-induced stress affect the fitness traits (i.e., survival and reproduction) of the organism. Additionally, I attempted to explore how these factors influenced the fitness of both sexes. Meanwhile, I tested …