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| Title: | Innovation and Food System Sustainability: Public Concerns vs Private Interests |
| Authors: | Sodano, Valeria |
| Authors (Email): | Sodano, Valeria (vsodano@unina.it) |
| Editors: | Fritz, Melanie
Rickert, Ursula
Schiefer, Gerhard |
| Editors (Email): | Fritz, Melanie (m.fritz@uni-bonn.de)
Rickert, Ursula (u.rickert@uni-bonn.de)
Schiefer, Gerhard (schiefer@uni-bonn.de) |
| Keywords: | innovation
sustainability
local food systems
fresh produce
participatory
democracy |
| Issue Date: | 2008-10 |
| Series/Report no.: | proceedings |
| Abstract: | The food system negatively affects the environment, human health and the total well being of
the society in many ways, causing: soil and water depletion, pollution due to the waste treatments,
acid rains, desertification, climate change, ozone depletion and biodiversity loss. The paper
endeavors to compare the needs of a sustainable food system with strategies actually carried
out at private and public level. It is shown that while the process of trade liberalization is pushing
towards market deregulation and decreasing state intervention, corporate social responsibility
is very low and unable to tackle the huge environmental problems faced by the food
system. The main conclusion of the paper is that the current competitive games played by leading
firms are not in any way able to promote the sustainability of the new global food system
and that more state intervention is requested in order to reach the goal. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/49891 |
| Identifiers: | ISBN 978-3-932887-96-3 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>110th Seminar, February 18-22, 2008, Innsbruck-Igls, Austria |
| Total Pages: | 10 |
| From Page: | 9 |
| To Page: | 18 |
| Collections: | 110th Seminar, February 18-22, 2008, Innsbruck-Igls, Austria
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