Book Review: Alessandro Bonanno and Lawrence Busch (eds), Handbook of the International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food
| Author | P Sean Morris |
| DOI | 10.1177/1478929916676762 |
| Published date | 01 February 2017 |
| Date | 01 February 2017 |
| Subject Matter | Book ReviewsInternational Relations |
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introduced a prohibition on the extradition of
problems concerning global agriculture and
Colombian-born citizens in the 1991 food that affects mostly the global South. It is a
Constitution, only to revoke it through an
book that presents the neoliberal approach to
amendment 6 years later. These matters are
food and agriculture from the perspective of
only referred to in passing. The occasional
the global South, although aspects from the
editing faults do not help the impression that
perspective of the global North are included to
issues are treated hastily. Nevertheless, US
offer balance. The main approach that the con-
Foreign Policy on Transitional Justice is an
tributors have employed in the book is how
unparalleled volume that convincingly maps
Fordism (pp. 250–251), or state intervention in
out a puzzle that many had glossed over as
agriculture, has essentially transformed the
commonplace.
global South through the ‘application of mod-
ernisation policies to peasant-dominated sec-
Adriana Rudling
tors’ (p. 2).
(University of Sheffield)
However, post-Fordism saw a different turn
in the so-called ‘peasant-dominated’ sectors. It
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was a turn to the international relations of food
DOI: 10.1177/1478929916677887
and agriculture, the advance of global super-
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market chains, the monopolisation of major
commodities sectors, land grabbing and even
something that seems alien to food and agricul-
Handbook of the International Political
ture: ‘agricultural derivatives’. The result of
Economy of Agriculture and Food by
these polices and approach has been a devastat-
Alessandro Bonanno and Lawrence Busch
ing blow to how both food and agriculture is
(eds). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015. 416pp.,
shaped in international relations through nego-
£130.00 (h/b), ISBN 9781782548256
tiations and even the ‘hegemonic...
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