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Breaking new ground in food regimes theory: Corporate environmentalism, ecological feedbacks, and the 'food from somewhere' regime
Early food regimes literature tended to concentrate on the global scale analysis of implicitly negative trends in global food relations. In recent years, early food regimes authors like Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael ...
Dependant Reproduction of Alternative Modes of Agriculture: Organic Farming in New Zealand
Recent studies of organic agriculture are characterized by an assumption that it is relatively easy for agribusiness to transform the meaning of organic food and marginalize the position of small-scale organic producers. ...
Kosher in New York City, halal in Aquitaine: challenging the relationship between neoliberalism and food auditing
Previous work in the agri-food tradition has framed food auditing as a novelty characteristic of a shift to neoliberal governance in agri-food systems and has tackled the analysis of food “quality” in the same light. This ...
'Green Protectionism' and Organic Food Exporting from New Zealand: Crisis Experiments in the Breakdown of Fordist Trade and Agricultural Policies
The exporting of organic produce from New Zealand is a response to the ongoing breakdown of Fordist regulatory measures for agriculture in destination markets. The unambiguous neoliberal revolution in New Zealand has ...
Environmental Beliefs and Farm Practices of New Zealand Farmers: Contrasting Pathways to Sustainability
Sustainable farming, and ways to achieve it, are important issues for agricultural policy. New Zealand provides an interesting case for examining sustainable agriculture options because gene technologies have not been ...
The Chestnut Economy: The Praxis of Neo-Peasantry in Rural France
This article presents the results of a study of an informal economy within le Parc national des Cévennes and observes the way in which diverse groups have re-inhabited and re-inscribed a previously abandoned peasant ...
The Rise and Rise of EurepGAP: European (Re)Invention of Colonial Food Relations?
This article examines the development and potential consequences of the emergence of the new fruit and vegetable audit system EurepGAP. Emerging in 1999, EurepGAP brought together an alliance of retailers, producers, science ...
Naming Organics: understanding organic standards in New Zealand as a discursive field
The New Zealand organic industry has grown rapidly over the last ten years. While New Zealand did have a small organic agriculture social movement from the 1970s, the size and scope of the industry increased rapidly during ...
The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture
Despite a significant growth in food production over the past half-century, one of the most important challenges facing society today is how to feed an expected population of some nine billion by the middle of the 20th ...
From Agricultural Science to "Biological Economies"?
The development of New Zealand as a people, a blend of cultures, a nation and an economy owes much to the unique constellation of land- and waterbased resources, social values and ecological change within production ...