Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and how the countries have dealt with the expansion of the world, as a consequence of the world market. The other angle is the social and economic consequences of globalization for agricultural and rural development. The case studies included in this book prove that the contradictory meanings referred above are indeed representative of different facets and features of globalization.

Contributions by: Alan Hernandez-Solano, Alberto Valdes, Alexandre Gori Maia, Ana Portugal Melo, Antonio Marcio Buainain, Antonio Yunez-Naude, Cheng Li, Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi, Guo Jie, Hector Maletta, Henry Bernstein, Junior Ruiz Garcia, Junlin He, Kojo Amanor, Lídia Cabral, Luís Brites Pereira, Miguel Rocha de Sousa, Pedro Abel Vieira, Rana Muhammad Sohail Jafar, Peifen Zhuang, Roopinder Oberoi, Vanessa Duarte, Weiwei Fu, Yanling Chen, Yiqiang Shang, Zander Navarro