Food and agrarian orders in the world-economy

Papers presented at the Seventeenth Annual Political Economy of the World-System Conference, held at Cornell University, Ithaca, Arpil, 1993.

Introduction : agrarian and food relations in the world-economy / PhilipMcMichael -- Food and its relationship to concepts of power / Sidney Mintz -- Food politics : new dangers, new possibilities / Harriet Friedmann -- Durable-food production and consumption in the world-economy / Susan J. Thompson and J. Tadlock Cowan -- Historical transformations in agrarian systems based on wet-rice cultivation : toward an alternative model of social change / Ravi Arvind Palat --Fatal conjuncture : the decline and fall of the modern agrarian order during the Bretton Woods era / Resat Kasaba and Faruk Tabak -- Canadian misfortunes and Filipino fortunes : the invention of seaweed mariculture and the geographical reorganization of seaweed production / Lanfranco Blanchetti-Revelli -- Vines and wines in the world-economy / Roberto P. Korzeniewicz, Walter Goldfrank, and MiguelE. Korzeniewicz -- The regulation of the world coffee market : tropical commodities and the limits of globalization / John M. Talbot -- On global pond: