Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future by Gavin Fridell

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  • Geoff Tansey

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

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alternative trade

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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.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

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

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2014-08-18

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

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Critique de livre, d’art ou d’un événement