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A guide to various issues involving globalization and the production, distribution and consumption of food. It demonstrates the central role of food in many of the crucial and most controversial social and political issues of the 21st century. It investigates the multiple ways in which globalization and food are interrelated.
1. The Globalization of Food
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The recent near-collapse of the global financial sector and the resulting economic problems have caused a great deal of re-examining of the fundamental principles of globalization. This book showcases how leading managers perceive the current crises and the future of globalization. It offers trendsetting answers, solutions and a roadmap for the roadblocks facing future economic growth which are proposed by leading minds from world-leading companies such as CISCO Systems, British Telecom, Lufthan
2. Globalization 2.0
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Globalization and Uncertainty in Latin America gathers new scholarship on globalization and Latin America in an entertaining and well-researched volume. This balanced and innovative collection examines how rising levels of uncertainty affect daily life, as well as society, government, and culture. Well-known authors use different methodologies to approach the common theme of a region transformed in recent years by neoliberalism. Most of the contributors suggest that Latin America is experiencing
3. Globalization and Uncertainty in Latin America
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Anti-Globalization: Anti-Globalization Movement, No LOGO, Ecofeminism, Tobin Tax
4. Anti- Globalization: Anti- Globalization Movement, No LOG O, Ecofeminism, Tobin Tax
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5. Globalization of Language and Culture in Asia: The Impact of Globalization Processes on Language
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Globalization is not new, nor is it a policy, it´s a process that has existed as long as man looked over the horizon, travelled and traded. It can´t be stopped but it can be slowed. It came to a grinding halt in August 1914 and the Marxist detour cost millions of lives and lost 3 generations their opportunity and hope in many countries. More wealth has been created in the past 60 years than in all of history. After the most successful decade of sustained economic growth in history, this progress
6. Saving Globalization: Why Globalization and Democracy Offer the Best Hope for Progress, Peace and Development
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´Globalization is irreversible and irresistible.´ - Tony Blair This book gives the lie to that claim. Economic globalization has never been an inevitable part of human history. It is eminently reversible and hugely resistible. Greg Buckman argues there are two broad approaches within the anti-globalization movement. One, perhaps the most widely supported and influential strand today, he calls the Fair Trade and Back to Bretton Woods school. This argues for immediate reforms of the world´s tradin
7. Globalization: Tame It or Scrap It?: Mapping the Alternatives of the Anti- Globalization Movement
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8. Held, David; Mc Grew, Anthony: Globalization/ Anti- Globalization: Beyond the Great Divide
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9. Globalization: Anti- Globalization Movement, Kofi Annan, World Government, World Music, Universalism, International Auxiliary Language
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Offers an exploration of the impact of globalization on diverse cultures and how this effects the dominant languages across Asian civilisations. This book is suitable for researchers and postgraduate students in all fields of sociolinguistic enquiry.
10. Globalization of Language and Culture in Asia: The Impact of Globalization Processes on Language