Contenidos:Globalizing and FoodReidar Almas and Geoffrey Lawrence; Fast food/slow food - standardizing and differentiating cultures of food / Mara Miele and Jonathan Murdoch; Restructuring of the sugar supply to the industrially processed food chain - the Brazilian case, Maria Rita Pontes Assumpcao; Forging new local/global links through fair trade agro-food networks, Laura T. Raynolds; The power of food, Philip McMichael. The Restructuring of Local Agriculture: Assessing the neoliberal experiment in antipodean agriculture, Hugh Campbell and Geoffrey Lawrence; Resisting integration in the global agro-food system - corporate chickens and community controversy in Texas, Douglas H. Constance, Alessandro Bonanno, Caron Cates, Daniel L. Argo and Mirenda Harris; Globalization and agro-food systems in Argentina, Miguel Teubal and Javier Rodriguez; Technological transformation of household milk production in the south of Brazil - social impacts, Ivaldo Gehlen; Co-operatives to companies - the South African wine industry in the face of globalization, Joachim Ewert. Communities and Resistance in a Globalizing World: 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, Reidar Almas; Local consequences and responses to global integration - the role of the state and less favoured zones, Manuel Belo Moreira; Global change, social exclusion and sustainable livelihoods in rural Britain, Mark Shucksmith; Countering localized impacts of globalization - some rural community development initiatives in Australia, Erica Hallebone, Mary Mahoney and Mardie Townsend; The problem of trust at the margins of the network economy - trust and confidence among rural entrepreneurs in Finland, Petri Ruuskanen