Agri-Food Commodity Chains and Globalising Networks (The Dynamics of Economic Space)

✍ Scribed by Christina Stringer and Richard Le Heron

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 259
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Within the international agri-food community at least four theoretical targets are attracting increasing attention. They are: the established notions of network and commodity chain that are being revisited by way of critical engagement informed by the insights of in depth empirical work, the metrics of calculation and institutional embedding that underpin the rise and functionality of governance technologies, the place of regional networking in creating conditions that make possible agri-food producer participation in local provisioning and supply, and the geo-historical dimensions of interconnection and interdependency in the agri-food sphere. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of anthropologists, economists, buinsess and management academics and geographers to examine a wide range of case studies illustrating various agri-food commodity chains and networks around the world and to discuss how these link globally.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
1 Introduction: Mapping the Concept of Globalising Networks......Page 16
2 Upgrading in South Africa’s Squid Value Chain......Page 24
3 Agribusiness and Poverty Reduction: What Can be Learned from the Value Chain Approach?......Page 38
4 Big is Not Always Better: Global Value Chain Restructuring and the Crisis in South Indian Tea Estates......Page 50
5 Contesting the Rules of Exchange: Changing Conventions of Procurement in the MERCOSUR Yerba Mate Commodity Chain......Page 64
6 Audit Me This! Kiwifruit Producer Uptake of the EurepGAP Audit System in New Zealand......Page 76
7 Maintaining the ‘Clean Green’ Image: Governance of On-Farm Environmental Practices in the New Zealand Dairy Industry......Page 90
8 A Sustainable Fisheries Oasis? Strategy and Performance in the New Zealand Seafood Sector......Page 104
9 Constructing Economic Objects of Governance: The New Zealand Wine Industry......Page 118
10 Placing Local Food in a Cross-Border Setting......Page 136
11 Agrarian Clusters and Chains in Rural Areas of Germany and Poland......Page 152
12 Farmer Innovations in Environmental Management: New Approaches to Agricultural Sustainability?......Page 162
13 The Region as Organisation: Differentiation and Collectivity in Bordeaux, Napa, and Chianti Classico......Page 176
14 Creating Trust Through Branding: The Case of Northwest Ohio’s Greenhouse Cluster......Page 190
15 Growing a Global Resource-Based Company from New Zealand: The Case of Dairy Giant Fonterra......Page 204
16 The Commodity Chain at the Periphery: The Spar Trade of Northern New Zealand in the Early 19th Century......Page 216
17 Akaroa Cocksfoot: Examining the Supply Chain of a Defunct New Zealand Agricultural Export......Page 230
18 Biotic Exchange in an Imperial World: Developments in the Grass Seed Trade......Page 244
E......Page 256
O......Page 257
T......Page 258
Z......Page 259