Beyond Global Food Supply Chains

This open access book takes the upheaval of the global COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard from which to interrogate a larger set of structural, environmental and political fault lines running through the global food system.

Part I Foundations

1 Introduction: Beyond Global Supply Chains

2 Supply Chains as Disruption

3 Agri-investment Cashing in on COVID-19

Part II Production

4 Putting the Crisis to Work

5 Going Against the Grain in the West Australian Wheatbelt

6 Reviving Community Agrarianism in Post-socialist China

Part III Distribution

7 Fantasies of Logistics in Aotearoa New Zealand

8 Reproducing Hunger in Pandemic America

9 The Pandemic Supermarket

Part IV Food Politics

10 Disruption as Reprieve?

11 The UN Food Systems Summit: Disaster Capitalism and the Future of Food

12 Against Consumer Ethics

13 Afterword: Temporary Measures

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