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 ...

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 ...

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 article presents a research that focuses on analysis of genetic manipulation as a sociologically challenging technology crisis. While the overt rationale for the agri-food approach is to illuminate the theoretical ...

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 ...

Through a discussion of 'industry greening' this paper reviews different attempts by New Zealand’s apple industry to address the issue of food safety and protect its global market niche in the fresh fruit and vegetables ...

Under neoliberal schemes like audit systems, consumer demands born of concerns about food safety, the environment and animal welfare are theoretically poised to influence agricultural production systems (Campbell and Le ...

Within the political economy of agriculture and agrofood literatures there are examples of approaches that reject simple dichotomies between alternatives and the mainstream. In line with such approaches, we challenge the ...

The last 10 years have witnessed numerous attempts to evaluate the merits of new theoretical approaches – ranging from Actor Network Theory to ‘post-structural’ Political Economy and inhabiting a ‘post-Political Economy’ ...

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 ...