Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : a new world of standards / Lawrence Busch and Jim Bingen -- The World Trade Organization : ultimate arbiter of international sanitary and phytosanitary standards? / Kevin C. Kennedy -- Circulations of insecurity : globalizing food standards in historical perspective / Suzan Ilcan and Lynne Phillips -- The International Office of Vine and Wine (OIV) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) : standardization issues in the wine sector / Hervé Hannin, Jean-Marie Codron, and Sophie Thoyer -- Negotiating standards for animal products : a procedural approach applied to raw milk / Bertil Sylvander and Olivier Biencourt -- The indivisibility of science, policy and ethics : Starlink tm corn and the making of standards / Maite P. Salazar ... [et al.] -- Standards and state-building : the construction of soybean standards in Brazil / Ivan Sergio Freire de Sousa and Lawrence Busch -- Paradoxes of innovation : standards and technical change in the transformation of the US soybean industry / Lawrence Busch ... [et al.] -- Defining a good steak : global constructions of what is considered the best red meat / Elizabeth Ransom -- Improving the access of small farmers in Africa to global markets through the development of quality standards for pigeonpeas / Richard Jones ... [et al.] -- China and global organic food standards : sovereignty bargains and domestic politics / Paul Thiers -- Cotton in West Africa : a question of quality / Jim Bingen -- Shaping a policy and research agenda / Jim Bingen and Lawrence Busch.

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