The world agri-food system is getting increasingly 'globalized'. As the majority moves into cities, and those who remain in rural areas adopt urbanized lifestyl

Using original research from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America, this book reviews the recent restructuring of the global agri-food industry and the dramati

Includes papers and case studies presented at a FAO workshop held in Rome, Italy from 8 to 10 October 2003

Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is b

Subsistence production: a sign of market failure. Commercialization cannot be left to the market. Household effects of commercialization. Nutrition effects of c