Overview
- The most comprehensive economic and ethical analysis of agrifood competition to date
- Contributions by leading ethicists, agricultural economists and rural sociologists
- Appropriate for scholars and accessible to policymakers
Part of the book series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics (LEAF, volume 20)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptualizing Agrifood Competition
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Assessing Agrifood Competition
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Agricultural Contracting
- Agrifood Competition
- Agrifood Industries
- Cattle Markets
- Competition in Agriculture
- Conceptualizing Fairness in the Context of Competition
- Consolidation in Agriculture
- Cooption of Local Foods
- Corporate Control of Agriculture
- Ethical Issues in Agriculture
- Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition
- European Food Prices Monitoring Tool
- Globalization and Agriculture
- Industrial Clusters
- Market Fairness
- Marketing Local Foods
- Problems with Poultry Production and Processing
- Sourcing and Marketing Food
About this book
This edited volume presents ethical and economic analyses of agrifood competition. By systematically examining fairness and openness in agricultural markets, it seeks to answer the question of whether there is adequate competition in the agrifood industry and whether the system is fair to all participants. It outlines ethical and economic principles important for understanding agrifood competition, presents arguments for and against consolidation, globalization and the integration of agrifood industries, and looks at the implications of globalization on the nature of competition in specific agricultural contexts.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition is a thoughtful collection of articles on a pressing issue. … Those looking for some perspectives different from their own will find them here, as will those looking for confirmation of their biases. In addition, those seeking relevant case studies comparing different degrees of competition across agricultural commodity sectors and geographic regions will find the book useful. … be suitable for generating discussion in many different advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in many fields … .” (Michael Gunderson, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, January, 2014)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition
Editors: Harvey S. James, Jr.
Series Title: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6274-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6273-2Published: 03 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8308-8Published: 03 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6274-9Published: 19 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1570-3010
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1737
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 269
Topics: Ethics, Agricultural Economics, Social Sciences, general