Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future by Gavin Fridell

Authors

  • Geoff Tansey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.48

Keywords:

alternative trade

Abstract

A long, long time ago, in a world where ‘free trade’ market fundamentalism was not the only economic religion, I helped start a journal called Food Policy—economics, planning and politics of food and agriculture. Well, actually, not that long ago, in the mid 1970s. It just seems a world away. The journal’s sub-title betrays the fact that it was a different world. Governments had a role in planning for food and agriculture—what Fridell calls ‘the social regulation of agri-food commodities’. Issues to do with the most fundamental aspect of human well-being—the ability of everyone to eat a safe, secure, sufficient, nutritious diet—were not seen as something left to the mythical abstraction of ‘The Market’, but a matter of politics and power that shaped political economies and market structures.

Author Biography

Geoff Tansey

Geoff Tansey works for fair, healthy and sustainable food systems as an independent writer and consultant. He is a member and a trustee of The Food Ethics Council. His books include The Food System: a guide (with Tony Worsley) and co-editorship of The future control of food - A guide to international negotiations and rules on intellectual property, biodiversity and food security. He is currently setting up an open access, on-line ‘virtual academy’ of keynote talks around transforming our food systems. Get Food and thriving people: Paradigm shifts for fair and sustainable food systems

photo of a figure standing behind a pile of food books, one of which has a cleaver in it

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Published

2014-08-18

How to Cite

Tansey, G. (2014). Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future by Gavin Fridell. Canadian Food Studies La Revue Canadienne Des études Sur l’alimentation, 1(2), 7–8. https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.48

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014): Book Reviews (and an event review!)

Section

Book/Art/Event Reviews

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