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Globalisation and regulation of food risks. A theoretical overview.
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Globalisation and regulation of food risks. A theoretical overview. Paper for the Conference in Chiang Mai 'Changing environmental governance in Asia. Globalization industrial transformation and new state-society relations'. 11-12 October 2003 Peter Oosterveer Environmental Policy Group Wageningen University1 Abstract. As globalisation process covers more and more aspects of life and includes food, it becomes increasingly important to develop consistent theoretical perspectives on this process. In this paper I will first identify different theoretical views on globalisation and build on the views of Giddens and Castells to analyse the globalisation of food production and consumption. This will lead to the identification of structural tensions in the regulatory options in this globalising agri-food networks. The concept of agri-food networks is introduced to analyse the tension between global and local regulation of food production and consumption. 1. Introduction. Regulating the environmental consequences of food production and consumption as well as the safety of food is no longer the sole responsibility of...
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