Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access originally published online on October 2, 2007
Journal of Economic Geography 2008 8(1):127-129; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbm037
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Regoverning markets: a place for small-scale producers in modern agrifood chains?
B. Vorley, A. Fearne and D. Ray (Eds)
Regoverning markets: a place for small-scale producers in modern agrifood chains?
B. Vorley, A. Fearne and D. Ray (Eds) Aldershot: Gower, 2007. ISBN 978-0-566-08730-1 (hardback), 220 pp. Price: £55.00.
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The international expansion of supermarkets and concomitant transformation of food production and distribution systems has emerged as an issue of global importance during the past decade. As such, the purported globalization of food retailing has drawn increasing attention from geographers and economists alike, who have identified a host of profound implications for producers, consumers, suppliers, domestic competitors and workers in both developed and developing countries. The salience of the supermarket revolution within developing countries is further highlighted by the World Bank's 2008 World Development Report Agriculture for Development that focuses specifically on the barriers impeding participation of small-scale agricultural producers in global commodity chains and potential opportunities for improving rural livelihoods.
Like the 2008 World Development Report, Regoverning Markets: A Place for Small-scale Producers in Modern Agrifood Chains? attempts to understand how
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