▪ Abstract One of the most profound changes in the United States in the past century is the
national abandonment of farming as a livelihood strategy. This change is evident both in the …

In this paper, we review recent developments in political economy approaches to
agricultural geography. During the last decade, the main areas of debate have shifted from …

This article asks how the application of digital technologies is changing the organization of
the agri-food system in the context of the third food regime. The academic debate on …

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the
world of food policy. This new edition brings these developments fully up to date within the …

The network concept has become widely utilised in socioeconomic studies of economic life.
Following the debates around exogenous and endogenous development, networks may …

In this paper we analyze a turn to “quality” in both food production and consumption. We
argue that quality in the food sector, as it is being asserted at the present time, is closely …

The globalization of trade in foodstuffs is now a firmly established feature on the landscape
of economic geography, although its impacts and desirability remain the source of …

[T] he capitalism of Karl Marx or Fernand Braudel is not the total capitalism of the Marxists. It
is a skein of somewhat longer networks that rather inadequately embrace a world on the …

Although they are ubiquitous, grades and standards are usually considered to be merely
convenient technologies for organizing and regulating markets so as to reduce transaction …

Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of
fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of …