Transforming Agriculture and Foodways

The Digital-Molecular Convergence

David Goodman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2023
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-3146-5 (ISBN)

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Agri-food systems in the Global North are experiencing a wave of technological innovation in food production and ways of eating. This book is the first to analyse technological and socio-economic change in leading food sectors and it concludes that despite innovation, the food industry is adapting too slowly to the challenges of climate change.

A wave of innovation driven by the convergence of digital and molecular technologies is transforming food production and ways of eating in the US, Western Europe and Australasia. This book explores a range of contemporary agri-food issues, such as the digitalisation of farm production, aka Precision Agriculture, farmer independence, gene editing, alternative proteins and the rise of app-based home food deliveries.

This is the first book to provide a systemic analysis of technological innovation and its socio-economic consequences in modern food systems, including the ‘hollowing out’ of rural communities and pronounced industrial concentration. The food system is under growing public pressure to respond to global climate change, but this book finds little evidence of transition to sustainable low-carbon trajectories.

David Goodman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. He is co-editor of the Food and Society book series.

1. Technological Convergence and Change in Modern Food Systems

2. Precision Agriculture: Big Data Analytics, Farm Support Platforms and Concentration in the AgTech Space

3. Precision Agriculture: Adoption, ‘Re-scripting’, Farmer Identity, Path Dependence and ‘Appropriationism 4.0’

4. Alternative Proteins: Bio-mimicry, Structuring the New Protein Industry. ‘Promissory Narratives’. and ‘Substitutionism 4.0’

5. The failed Promises of the Seed-Chemical Complex, CRISPR and Gene Editing, and Regulatory Capture

6. Between Physical Space and Digital Space: Changing Patterns of Food Provisioning, COVID-19 and Platform Capitalism

7. Conclusion and Postscript: Continuities in Change and Lost Opportunities

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Food and Society
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-5292-3146-9 / 1529231469
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-3146-5 / 9781529231465
Zustand	Neuware