Agricultural production experiences a shift in underlying institutions during the last years. Importance of private stakeholders like retailers, processors, consumers as well as tax payers is, emerging. Eligibility for single farm payments and marketing of products is linked to compliance with,...

Despite the increasing interest around alternative food networks and their huge growth in the last decades, they are still considered a complementary source of provision by most customers. Alternative food shoppers are faced with a "quantity dilemma", i.e., choosing how much food they want to...

Chapter 1. The Case Against Modern Farming -- Chapter 2. Food Swamp Nation -- Chapter 3. The Limits of Local Food -- Chapter 4. The Panic for Organic -- Chapter 5. Should Peasants Stay Poor? -- Chapter 6. Rejecting Biotech Food -- Chapter 7. The Fate of Farm Animals -- Chapter 8. The Brave New...