Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-248) and index.
Contents
Food safety and China's scale problem -- Revisiting scale -- A short history of China's food production -- The export sector : the heavy hand of direct control -- CSA markets : "I don't sell vegetables, I sell trust" -- Failed state policies : scale and its discontents -- Coregulatory initiatives : China's big, small farmer problem -- Scaling down : moving from global to the local -- Scaling up : from local experiments to national solutions? -- The scale politics of regulatory giants, compared -- Parting thoughts on scale.
Summary
Focuses on the oft-cited but ultimately overlooked concept of scale to identify the root causes of China's regulatory failures in food safety. --Page [i].
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