Agrifood globalization and commodity systems

Globalization has become a preoccupation in most of the social sciences and those of us involved in agrifood studies have taken it avidly to our research bosoms. For those of us researching agrifood commodity systems, the emphasis on globalization has been most opportune. Although some foods such as sugar have been somewhat1 globalized for about 400 years and fresh produce — bananas — have been somewhat in globa