Agri-food commodity chains and globalising networks
Title:
Agri-food commodity chains and globalising networks
Author:
Stringer, Christina.
ISBN:
9780754673361
Publication Information:
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.
Physical Description:
xiv, 244 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Series:
The dynamics of economic space
Dynamics of economic space.
Contents:
1. Introduction: Mapping the concept of globalising networks / Christina Stringer and Richard Le Heron -- 2. Upgrading in South Africa's squid value chain / Charles Mather -- 3. Agribusiness and poverty reduction : what can be learned from the value chain approach? / Andreas Stamm -- 4. Big is not always better : global value chain restructuring and the crisis in south Indian tea estates / Jeffrey Neilson and Bill Pritchard -- 5. Contesting the rules of exchange : changing conventions of procurement in the MERCOSUR Yerba mate commodity chain / Christopher Rosin -- 6. Audit me this! kiwifruit producer uptake of the EurepGAP audit system in New Zealand / Christopher Rosin, Hugh Campbell and Lesley Hunt -- 7. Maintaining the 'clean green' image : governance of on-farm environmental practices in the New Zealand dairy industry / Paula Blackett and Richard Le Heron -- 8. A sustainable fisheries oasis? Strategy and performance in the New Zealand seafood sector / Eugene Rees -- 9. Constructing economic objects of governance : the New Zealand wine industry / Nicolas Lewis -- 10. Placing local food in a cross-border setting / Brian Ilbery and Damian Maye -- 11. Agrarian clusters and chains in rural areas of Germany and Poland / Elmar Kulke -- 12. Farmer innovations in environmental management : new approaches to agricultural sustainability? / Mairi Jay -- 13. The region as organisation : differentiation and collectivity in Bordeaux, Napa, and Chianti Classico / Jerry Patchell -- 14. Creating trust through branding : the case of northwest Ohio's greenhouse cluster / Neil Reid and Michael C. Carroll -- 15. Growing a global resource-based company from New Zealand : the case of dairy giant Fonterra / Christina Stringer ... [et al.] -- 16. The commodity chain at the periphery : the spar trade of northern New Zealand in the early 19th century / Michael Roche -- 17. Akaroa cocksfoot : examining the supply chain of a defunct New Zealand agricultural export / Vaughan Wood -- 18. Biotic exchange in an imperial world : developments in the grass seed trade / Eric Pawson.
Abstract:
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of anthropologists, economists, business 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.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip089/2008002423.html