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 ...

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. ...

The following report presents a summary of findings from a series of publications arising from the FRST Public Good Science Fund programme ‘Optimum Development of Certified Organic Horticulture in New Zealand’. This research ...

This report provides an overview of the key design features of the Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability (ARGOS) programme. This ongoing long-term research project started in 2003, involving a group of around 20 ...

The ARGOS (Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability) project was designed to enable the interrogation of the condition of sustainability in the New Zealand agriculture sector. To account for the country’s reliance on ...

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 ...

As the rationale for the social research objective within ARGOS, this document provides a preliminary discussion of the theoretical and methodological approach being taken by the social researchers in the project. As such, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...