Seizing Control assess changes twelve international authorities see
occurring in the global food system. Dr. Douglass C. North watches
viability of existing business forms (Noble Prize 1993, Prof. Economics
& History, Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO); Dr. David Hughes (Wye
College, Univ of London) examines product differentiation and
countervailing power rising from consumers; Lee Egerstrom details the
disaster of horizontal expansion. Drs. Roel Jaap in 't Veld (Utrecht
Univ.) and Vernon Ruttan (U MN) assess cooperative strengths when
approaching change. Drs. Jesper Strandskov (Aarhus Univ., Denmark),
Jerker Nilsson, (Uppsala Univ., Sweden), Werner Grosskopf, (Univ. of
Hohenheim, Germany), and Michael Cook (U of MO) offer perspectives on
cooperatives and changes occurring in their countries; Drs. Arie van der
Zwan (Nijenrode Univ.) and Van Dijk (Director, Netherlands National
Cooperative Council) discuss how expansion and international markets are
dislocating local labor markets while summarizing opportunities experts
see for local people.
