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Food Systems in an Unequal World by Ryan E. Galt (2014) HB 180606
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- Condition
- Like New
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- “Appears unread. Dust jacket, cover and text are pristine.”
- Country/Region of Manufacture
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
ISBN-10
0816506035
ISBN-13
9780816506033
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175894849
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Food Systems in an Unequal World : Pesticides, Vegetables, and Agrarian Capitalism in Costa Rica
Publication Year
2014
Subject
Life Sciences / Ecology, Pest Control, Sociology / General, Industries / Agribusiness, Agriculture / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Science, Business & Economics
Series
Society, Environment, and Place Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2013-034410
Reviews
" Food Systems in an Unequal World forms a part of and provides an important critical moment within a new wave of scholarship that speaks to the rise of quality-defined national and international markets."--Tad Mutersbaugh, University of Kentucky, "Diving into the large technical variability in pesticides may lead to tedious reading, but Galt succeeds extraordinarily well in introducing the reader to the material complexity of the issue, by explaining the technical aspects bit by bit without distracting the reader from the larger story." --The AAG Review of Books "Using Costa Rican farmer surveys, archival data, and a political ecology framework, Galt carefully teases out the relations between local agro-ecologies, multiple markets, public policies, and pesticide use to provide a fine-grained perspective on these paradoxes."-- Agriculture and Human Values , "Forms a part of and provides an important critical moment within a new wave of scholarship that speaks to the rise of quality-defined national and international markets."--Tad Mutersbaugh, University of Kentucky, "Offers an important contribution to the political ecology approach as it shifts political ecology's predominant focus on subsistence agriculture to a more industrialized agriculture practiced by small-scale family farmers."-- Economic Geography, "Diving into the large technical variability in pesticides may lead to tedious reading, but Galt succeeds extraordinarily well in introducing the reader to the material complexity of the issue, by explaining the technical aspects bit by bit without distracting the reader from the larger story." --The AAG Review of Books, "Forms a part of and provides an important critical moment within a new wave of scholarship that speaks to the rise of quality-defined national and international markets."--Tad Mutersbaugh, University of Kentucky, "One of the major contributions of Food Systems in an Unequal World is the concept of regulatory risk and how that is translated to farmers. Filtering the regulatory risk to the field is good geography and laudable."--Brad Jokisch, Ohio University, "Using Costa Rican farmer surveys, archival data, and a political ecology framework, Galt carefully teases out the relations between local agro-ecologies, multiple markets, public policies, and pesticide use to provide a fine-grained perspective on these paradoxes."-- Agriculture and Human Values "Diving into the large technical variability in pesticides may lead to tedious reading, but Galt succeeds extraordinarily well in introducing the reader to the material complexity of the issue, by explaining the technical aspects bit by bit without distracting the reader from the larger story." --AAG Review of Books , " Food Systems in an Unequal World forms a part of and provides an important critical moment within a new wave of scholarship that speaks to the rise of quality-defined national and international markets."-Tad Mutersbaugh, University of Kentucky, " Food Systems in an Unequal World forms a part of and provides an important critical moment within a new wave of scholarship that speaks to the rise of quality-defined national and international markets."-Tad Mutersbaugh, University of Kentucky, "Using Costa Rican farmer surveys, archival data, and a political ecology framework, Galt carefully teases out the relations between local agro-ecologies, multiple markets, public policies, and pesticide use to provide a fine-grained perspective on these paradoxes."-- Agriculture and Human Values "Diving into the large technical variability in pesticides may lead to tedious reading, but Galt succeeds extraordinarily well in introducing the reader to the material complexity of the issue, by explaining the technical aspects bit by bit without distracting the reader from the larger story." --AAG Review of Books " Food Systems ... is an ambitious theoretical reconstruction of critical perspectives on industrial agriculture, and a great example of how a political ecology approach maybe operationalized and refined."-- Bulletin of Latin American Research "This is a very rich, thoroughly documented, and well-written book that illustrates very effectively the advantages of using a political ecological approach to understanding pesticide use."-- Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies " Food Systems in an Unequal World is an information-intensive book that presents both a carefully researched empirical case study and a compelling theoretical argument."-- Global Environmental Politics "[ Food Systems in an Unequal World ] is a recommended reading for anyone studying and/or researching aspects of human ecology and agroecology and is... an important contribution to the farming pesticides debate."-- International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability "This is an excellent example of how a spatial approach can bring out aspects of human-environmental interactions that otherwise might not be discerned."-- Journal of Latin American Geography "An undeniably significant scholarly achievement...groundbreaking."-- The Journal of Peasant Studies "Offers an important contribution to the political ecology approach as it shifts political ecology's predominant focus on subsistence agriculture to a more industrialized agriculture practiced by small-scale family farmers."-- Economic Geography, "Using Costa Rican farmer surveys, archival data, and a political ecology framework, Galt carefully teases out the relations between local agro-ecologies, multiple markets, public policies, and pesticide use to provide a fine-grained perspective on these paradoxes."-- Agriculture and Human Values "Diving into the large technical variability in pesticides may lead to tedious reading, but Galt succeeds extraordinarily well in introducing the reader to the material complexity of the issue, by explaining the technical aspects bit by bit without distracting the reader from the larger story." --AAG Review of Books, "One of the major contributions of Food Systems in an Unequal World is the concept of regulatory risk and how that is translated to farmers. Filtering the regulatory risk to the field is good geography and laudable."-Brad Jokisch, Ohio University
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
363.738498097286
Synopsis
Food Systems in an Unequal World examines regulatory risk and how it translates to and impacts farmers in Costa Rica. Ryan E. Galt shows how the food produced for domestic markets lacks regulation similar to that of export markets, creating a dangerous double standard of pesticide use., Pesticides, a short-term aid for farmers, can often be harmful, undermining the long-term health of agriculture, ecosystems, and people. The United States and other industrialized countries import food from Costa Rica and other regions. To safeguard the public health, importers now regulate the level and types of pesticides used in the exporters' food production, which creates "regulatory risk" for the export farmers. Although farmers respond to export regulations by trying to avoid illegal pesticide residues, the food produced for their domestic market lacks similar regulation, creating a double standard of pesticide use. Food Systems in an Unequal World examines the agrochemical-dependent agriculture of Costa Rica and how its uneven regulation in export versus domestic markets affects Costa Rican vegetable farmers. Examining pesticide-dependent vegetable production within two food systems, the author shows that pesticide use is shaped by three main forces: agrarian capitalism, the governance of food systems throughout the commodity chain, and ecological dynamics driving local food production. Those processes produce unequal outcomes that disadvantage less powerful producers who have more limited choices than larger farmers, who usually have access to better growing environments and thereby can reduce pesticide use and production costs. Despite the rise of alternative food networks, Galt says, persistent problems remain in the conventional food system, including widespread and intensive pesticide use. Facing domestic price squeezes, vegetable farmers in Costa Rica are more likely to supply the national market with produce containing residues of highly toxic pesticides, while using less toxic pesticides on exported vegetables. In seeking solutions, Galt argues for improved governance and research into alternative pest control but emphasizes that the process must be rooted in farmers' economic well-being.
LC Classification Number
SB950.3.C8G35 2014
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