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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...