• IntroductionSection I:FinancializationChapter 1 TheFinancialization of Farming: The Hancock Company of Canada and Its Embedding inRural Australia; Sarah Ruth Sippel,Geoffrey Lawrence and David BurchChapter 2Impacts of financialization on agricultural and rural investment: lessons fromthe Portuguese case; Manuel Belo MoreiraChapter 3 TheChicken Game – organization and integration in the Norwegian agri-food sector; Hilde Bjørkhaug,Jostein Vik and Carol RichardsChapter 4Re-Ordering the Rural? Canada, Dairy Supply Management and the Trans PacificPartnership Negotiations; Bruce MuirheadsSection 2:StandardizationChapter 5Standards and Their Problems: From Technical Specifications to World-Making; Lawrence BuschChapter 6Creating Actionable Knowledge for Sustainability: A Case of 'Standards in theMaking'; Allison Loconto andMarc BarbierChapter 7Legitimation and De-legitimation in Non-State Governance: LEO-4000 andSustainable Agriculture in the United States; Maki Hatanaka andJason KonefalChapter 8Farmers' Freedom in the Productive World Order: Standard Takers, Contesters andNegotiators or Dissenters?; Minna MikkolaSection 3:Commodification and ConsumptionChapter 9 Ablot on the landscape: consensus and controversies on wind farms in ruralPortugal; Ana Delicado,Mónica Truninger, Elisabete Figueiredo, Luís Silva, Ana HortaChapter 10Changing the olive oil's value chain: Food regime and development in Portugal; Dulce FreireChapter 11Consuming Rural Connections: Tracing Leeks back to their roots; Moya Kneafsey,Laura Venn, Elizabeth BosChapter 12Consuming Animals, constructing naturalness; Mara MieleChapter 13Return to the land. De-commodification of local foods in South Italy.; Annamaria Vitaleand Sílvia SiviniChapter 14Nutrition and the Mediterranean diet. A historical and sociological analysis ofthe concept of a "healthy diet" in Spanish society; Cecilia Díaz-Méndezand Cristobal Gómez-BenitoChapter 15School meals and the rural idyll: children's engagements with animals, plantsand other nature; Monica Truningerand Ana Horta

Selected from presentations to an August 2012 rural sociology conference in Lisbon, 15 papers look at financialization, standardization, and commodification and consumption. Among their topics are impacts of financialization on agricultural and rural investment: lessons from the Portuguese case, creating actionable knowledge for sustainability: a case of standards in the making, a blot on the landscape: consensus and controversies on wind farms in rural Portugal, consuming rural connections: tracking leeks back to their roots, return to the land: decommodification of local foods in South Italy, and nutrition and the Mediterranean diet: a historical and sociological analysis of the concept "healthy diet" in Spanish society.

• IntroductionSection I:FinancializationChapter 1 TheFinancialization of Farming: The Hancock Company of Canada and Its Embedding inRural Australia; Sarah Ruth Sippel,Geoffrey Lawrence and David BurchChapter 2Impacts of financialization on agricultural and rural investment: lessons fromthe Portuguese case; Manuel Belo MoreiraChapter 3 TheChicken Game – organization and integration in the Norwegian agri-food sector; Hilde Bjørkhaug,Jostein Vik and Carol RichardsChapter 4Re-Ordering the Rural? Canada, Dairy Supply Management and the Trans PacificPartnership Negotiations; Bruce MuirheadsSection 2:StandardizationChapter 5Standards and Their Problems: From Technical Specifications to World-Making; Lawrence BuschChapter 6Creating Actionable Knowledge for Sustainability: A Case of 'Standards in theMaking'; Allison Loconto andMarc BarbierChapter 7Legitimation and De-legitimation in Non-State Governance: LEO-4000 andSustainable Agriculture in the United States; Maki Hatanaka andJason KonefalChapter 8Farmers' Freedom in the Productive World Order: Standard Takers, Contesters andNegotiators or Dissenters?; Minna MikkolaSection 3:Commodification and ConsumptionChapter 9 Ablot on the landscape: consensus and controversies on wind farms in ruralPortugal; Ana Delicado,Mónica Truninger, Elisabete Figueiredo, Luís Silva, Ana HortaChapter 10Changing the olive oil's value chain: Food regime and development in Portugal; Dulce FreireChapter 11Consuming Rural Connections: Tracing Leeks back to their roots; Moya Kneafsey,Laura Venn, Elizabeth BosChapter 12Consuming Animals, constructing naturalness; Mara MieleChapter 13Return to the land. De-commodification of local foods in South Italy.; Annamaria Vitaleand Sílvia SiviniChapter 14Nutrition and the Mediterranean diet. A historical and sociological analysis ofthe concept of a "healthy diet" in Spanish society; Cecilia Díaz-Méndezand Cristobal Gómez-BenitoChapter 15School meals and the rural idyll: children's engagements with animals, plantsand other nature; Monica Truningerand Ana Horta

Selected from presentations to an August 2012 rural sociology conference in Lisbon, 15 papers look at financialization, standardization, and commodification and consumption. Among their topics are impacts of financialization on agricultural and rural investment: lessons from the Portuguese case, creating actionable knowledge for sustainability: a case of standards in the making, a blot on the landscape: consensus and controversies on wind farms in rural Portugal, consuming rural connections: tracking leeks back to their roots, return to the land: decommodification of local foods in South Italy, and nutrition and the Mediterranean diet: a historical and sociological analysis of the concept "healthy diet" in Spanish society.

• IntroductionSection I:FinancializationChapter 1 TheFinancialization of Farming: The Hancock Company of Canada and Its Embedding inRural Australia; Sarah Ruth Sippel,Geoffrey Lawrence and David BurchChapter 2Impacts of financialization on agricultural and rural investment: lessons fromthe Portuguese case; Manuel Belo MoreiraChapter 3 TheChicken Game – organization and integration in the Norwegian agri-food sector; Hilde Bjørkhaug,Jostein Vik and Carol RichardsChapter 4Re-Ordering the Rural? Canada, Dairy Supply Management and the Trans PacificPartnership Negotiations; Bruce MuirheadsSection 2:StandardizationChapter 5Standards and Their Problems: From Technical Specifications to World-Making; Lawrence BuschChapter 6Creating Actionable Knowledge for Sustainability: A Case of 'Standards in theMaking'; Allison Loconto andMarc BarbierChapter 7Legitimation and De-legitimation in Non-State Governance: LEO-4000 andSustainable Agriculture in the United States; Maki Hatanaka andJason KonefalChapter 8Farmers' Freedom in the Productive World Order: Standard Takers, Contesters andNegotiators or Dissenters?; Minna MikkolaSection 3:Commodification and ConsumptionChapter 9 Ablot on the landscape: consensus and controversies on wind farms in ruralPortugal; Ana Delicado,Mónica Truninger, Elisabete Figueiredo, Luís Silva, Ana HortaChapter 10Changing the olive oil's value chain: Food regime and development in Portugal; Dulce FreireChapter 11Consuming Rural Connections: Tracing Leeks back to their roots; Moya Kneafsey,Laura Venn, Elizabeth BosChapter 12Consuming Animals, constructing naturalness; Mara MieleChapter 13Return to the land. De-commodification of local foods in South Italy.; Annamaria Vitaleand Sílvia SiviniChapter 14Nutrition and the Mediterranean diet. A historical and sociological analysis ofthe concept of a "healthy diet" in Spanish society; Cecilia Díaz-Méndezand Cristobal Gómez-BenitoChapter 15School meals and the rural idyll: children's engagements with animals, plantsand other nature; Monica Truningerand Ana Horta

Selected from presentations to an August 2012 rural sociology conference in Lisbon, 15 papers look at financialization, standardization, and commodification and consumption. Among their topics are impacts of financialization on agricultural and rural investment: lessons from the Portuguese case, creating actionable knowledge for sustainability: a case of standards in the making, a blot on the landscape: consensus and controversies on wind farms in rural Portugal, consuming rural connections: tracking leeks back to their roots, return to the land: decommodification of local foods in South Italy, and nutrition and the Mediterranean diet: a historical and sociological analysis of the concept "healthy diet" in Spanish society.