Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables and Boxes -- Foreword, Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Food Crisis and Global Governance -- Part 1: The Causal Factors behind the Food Crisis -- 2. The Blame Game:...

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Contributors -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Agrifood Corporations, Global Governance, and Sustainability -- I Corporate Power in International Retail and Trade Governance -- 2 Retail Power, Private Standards, and Sustainability in the Global Food System -- 3...

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This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the...