From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food

Economic Geography;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food. Edited by Alessandro...for our time: the globalization of production and...agriculture and food, but the discourse...of the impacts of globalization in the agro-food systems-in Britain...

Creating an ethical context for globalization: catholic perspectives in an...

Journal of Ecumenical Studies;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Bretton Woods Conference. The Bretton Woods form of globalization has generated the largely unfettered flow of...question. Fortunately, he did not. For many years, globalization's champions, especially in North America and...for this cause. They continually claimed that globalization would achieve ...

Globalization Requires Safety Net, U.N. Says

The Washington Post;  July 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ......unavoidable byproduct of globalization, according to a United Nations...released yesterday. Pointing to food riots in dozens of poor countries...The report also said that food and fuel prices were likely...release of the study. "If food prices rise further and oil...including oil, metals and ...

UN leader cites price of globalization

The Boston Globe;  September 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ...As debt crises envelop national economies, globalization is "losing its luster" in many quarters of the...have neglected the political consequences of globalization. He said the neglect of political questions has made globalization -- the economic interdependence among nations -- a scapegoat. ...

Menu globalization: boundaries fade when it comes to sharing ingredients...

Restaurants & Institutions;  September 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ......will be a wonderful comfort food and steak and potatoes a big...coast to coast. Call it the globalization of the American menu. EXPECT...stations where guests can watch food being prepared in woks, or...sum, are vivid examples of globalization. We started thinking about...Mahoney, vice president ...

SLOW FOOD : An Italian answer to globalization.(Statistical Data Included)

The Nation;  August 20, 2001 ;     700+ words ......producing and preparing food. If the French attitude toward globalization is symbolized by farm...vanishing pleasures. Globalization, in Slow Food's view, has the potential...Petrini calls virtuous globalization. Although Slow Food's political dimension...

GLOBALIZATION AND POVERTY: LESSONS FROM THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF FOOD...

American Journal of Agricultural Economics;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......linked to the phenomenon of globalization (International Monetary Fund...of ongoing debates about globalization and food security, particularly as...interactions among the concept of globalization, poverty, and global food security.

Will Globalization Make You Happy?(psychological and social effects of...

Foreign Policy;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Thanks to globalization, human beings are wealthier...top of the evolutionary food chain to the highest rung...For all the discord over globalization, virtually everyone agrees...of its properties. First, globalization is very hard to stop. Ever...has increasingly viewed globalization as ...

If it's here to stay, what do we do now? MANAGING GLOBALIZATION

International Herald Tribune;  February 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ......resources efficiently.Now it's pretty clear that globalization, be it good or bad, is an Unavoidable Thing. Rather than dealing with the problems of globalization head-on, it can be tempting to try to slow the...commerce, migration and financial transactions, globalization will continue. Tariffs exist, ...

Coming to grips with globalization.(Statistical Data Included)

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm and Resource Issues;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Globalization is, to coin a phrase...high-value and processed food products in agricultural...really understand globalization -- the changing...Other components of globalization tell a different...encouraged firms in the food production and distribution...manufacturing, including the ...

The Globalization of Nothing

South Asian Journal of Management;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......people seem to be already under a spell that globalization is something of great importance. In this context, if one talks of globalization of nothing, it may sound jarring and seem counterintuitive...defined and its manifestations set out. In the globalization milieu, according to the author, the social ...

Globalization and Africa's regional and local responses.

Journal of Asian and African Studies;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......shaping Africa's place in the current phase of globalization and the African leadership's regional response...in the face of the global economy. Africa and Globalization in Perspective Globalization has always been the unfulfilled impetus of all...participants and advantage-takers in several early ...

TRADE/DEVELOPMENT: IS GLOBALIZATION UNDER ATTACK?

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  April 13, 1998 ;     700+ words ......India spoke of how globalization has led to lower tariff barriers on food imports into India...disobedience against globalization is already happening...against an increase in food imports -- just...protests against such globalization-linked issues as genetic engineering in food ...

UN: Steering globalization in right direction has ro role for NGOS,...

M2 Presswire;  September 20, 1999 ;     700+ words ......negative impact. In my view, globalization is not about economics alone...although some may argue that globalization has removed boundaries for...harness the benefits of globalization for developing countries. Elemental Concern: Food and Agriculture Agriculture...to share in the fruits of ...

Globalization for one-stop shoppers.(In Defense of Globalization)(Book...

Finance & Development;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......view of all the controversies that make up the globalization debate. The core of the book is devoted to what Bhagwati calls the human face of globalization. He addresses globalization and poverty, child labor, women, democracy, culture...subtlety and sophistication, he considers whether ...