Sociologists from around the world examine local strategies that provide for long-term sustainability in the face of globalization. Fifteen contributions address such topics as how the international S
Financialization is the increased influence of financial actors and logics on social and economic life, and is one of the key drivers transforming food systems and rural economies around the world. Th
As the threats of food insecurity loom ever larger, the world faces the sad irony of food shortages in the global South alongside a purported 'obesity epidemic' in the global North. The twin issues of