GEOG 2200 Lecture 5: Week 5 Lecture 1 GEOG 2200 2013 Notes.docx
5 Jun 2014
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Week 5 lecture 1: the global agri-food industry for the global connoisseur. As watts and goodman wrote in 1997, at the end of the last millennium: On the other hand, at the level of production and distribution, the food economy is being restructured in radically new ways increasingly driven by global demand and internationalization of the agro-food industry. The giant food companies and the large retailers are aggressively transforming the world agro-food economy. In some respects, the modern agri-food industry may seem little different from clothing, automobiles or electronics when it comes to global organization. Sanderson, in 1986, predicted the creation of the world steer or cow as a direct parallel to the world car. but it does have more profound and immediate impacts that we will come back to later. And the basic fact remains that, unlike other industries, the food industry is grounded in biophysical processes.
