The industrialization of agriculture concurrent with globalization and accompanying trade liberalization has substantially altered the US food landscape. Increasingly, consumers and researchers are confronted by an ostensible dichotomy of local, fresh foods vs. global, processed foods, where ‘‘local’’ is represented by alternative food initiatives such as farmers markets (termed here as ‘‘local...

Social impacts associated with new telecommunication innovations greatly affect both globalisation and territorial identities. Apparently contradictory trends bring with them elements of rapid social change and political uncertainty. This chapter reflects on the conjunction of both dimensions of the local and the global, and carries out a prescription of the progressive consolidation of a new c...