Abstract
This article proposes a number of arguments about the contemporary food system. Using the UK as a case study, it argues that the food system is marked by tensions and conflicts. The paper explores different strands of public policy as applied to the food system over the last two centuries. It differentiates between various uses of the term globalization and proposes that the real features and dynamics of the new world food order are complex and neither as benign nor as homogeneous as some of its proponents allow. Opposition to the new era of globalization is emerging in the food system. This is already having some impact, questioning not just the products of the food system but the nature of its production and distribution.
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Lang, T. The complexities of globalization: The UK as a case study of tensions within the food system and the challenge to food policy. Agriculture and Human Values 16, 169–185 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007542605470
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