| Description |
xv, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Australasian perspectives on agri-food restructuring / David Burch, Roy E. Rickson and Geoffrey Lawrence -- 2. Theoretical issues in global agri-food restructuring / Frederick H. Buttel -- 3. Contemporary agri-food restructuring: Australia and New Zealand / Geoffrey Lawrence -- 4. Eco-commodity systems: Historical geographies of context, articulation and embeddedness under capitalism / Richard Le Heron and Michael Roche -- 5. The detraditionalization of farming / Ian Gray -- 6. The uneasy transition to globalization: Restructuring of the Australian tomato processing industry / David Burch and Bill Pritchard -- 7. Australian sugar in the global economy: Recent trends, emerging problems / Linda Hungerford -- 8. Restructuring in the Australian dairy industry: The reconstruction and reinvention of co-operatives / Bill Pritchard -- 9. Organic agriculture in New Zealand: Corporate greening, transnational corporations and sustainable agriculture / Hugh Campbell -- 10. Contract farming in organizational agriculture: The effects upon farmers and the environment / Roy E. Rickson and David Burch -- 11. Contract farming under globally-oriented and locally-emergent agribusiness in Tasmania / Leigh Miller -- 12. Farmer decision making under contract farming in northern Tasmania / Amabel L. A. Fulton and Robert J. Clark -- 13. Agro-industrialization and social change within the Australian context: A case study of the fast food industry / Kristen Lyons -- 14. Supermarkets and the supply of fresh fruit and vegetables in Australia: Implications for wholesale markets / Hermione Parsons -- 15. Linking the global and the local: Ethnographic perspectives on farm practice and the globalization of agriculture / Emily Phillips -- 16. The globalized agriculture-finance relation: South Australian farm families and communities in a new regulatory environment / Neil Argent -- 17. Entrenched farm indebtedness and the process of agrarian change: A case study and its implications / Peter J. Smailes -- 18. Globalized agriculture and agri-food restructuring in southeast Asia: The Thai experience / David Burch |
| Analysis |
Agriculture and food |
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Asia, Southeast |
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Australia overseas comparisons |
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Commodity marketing |
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Economic integration |
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Exports |
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Farms |
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Federal issue |
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Foods |
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Globalisation |
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New Zealand |
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State issue |
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Structural adjustment |
| Notes |
Most of the papers ... initially presented at the [ Agri-food Research] Network's first major conference held at Griffith University in Brisbane in July 1995."--Pref |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Agricultural industries -- Australasia -- Congresses.
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Agricultural industries -- Australasia.
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Agriculture and state -- Australia -- Congresses.
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Agriculture and state -- New Zealand -- Congresses.
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Australasia -- Congresses.
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Australasia.
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Food industry and trade -- Australasia -- Congresses.
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Food supply -- Australasia.
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Globalization.
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Produce trade -- Asia -- Congresses.
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Produce trade -- Australia -- Congresses.
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Produce trade -- New Zealand -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Lawrence, Geoffrey.
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Rickson, Roy E.
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Agri-food Research Network.
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| LC no. |
96086358 |
| ISBN |
1859723802 |
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