Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND FOOD -- 1 Introduction: The Global/Local Problematic -- 2 Fast Food/Slow Food: Standardizing and Differentiating Cultures of Food -- 3 Restructuring of the Sugar Supply to the Industrially-Processed Food Chain: The Brazilian Case -- 4 Forging New Local/Global Links Through Fair Trade Agro-Food Networks -- 5 The Power of Food -- PART II: THE RESTRUCTURING OF LOCAL AGRICULTURE -- 6 Assessing the Neoliberal Experiment in Antipodean Agriculture -- 7 Resisting Integration in the Global Agro-Food System: Corporate Chickens and Community Controversy in Texas -- 8 Globalization and Agro-Food Systems in Argentina -- 9 Technological Transformation of Household Milk Production in the South of Brazil: Social Impacts -- 10 Co-operatives to Companies: The South African Wine Industry in the Face of Globalization -- PART III: COMMUNITIES AND RESISTANCE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD -- 11 Two Roads to the Global Village: A Comparison of How a Coastal and a Mountain Region of Norway Have Found Strategies to Cope with Globalization -- 12 Local Consequences and Responses to Global Integration: The Role of the State in the Less Favoured Zones -- 13 Global Change, Social Exclusion and Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural Britain -- 14 Countering Localized Impacts of Globalization: Some Rural Community Development Initiatives in Australia -- 15 The Problem of Trust at the Margins of the Network Economy: Trust and Confidence among Rural Entrepreneurs in Finland -- Index