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The Global Restructuring of Food and Agriculture: Contingencies and Parallels in Australia and New Zealand.
- Source :
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Rural Sociology . Jun99, Vol. 64 Issue 2, p179-185. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 1999
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Abstract
- This article focuses on processes of agrifood restructuring in Australia and New Zealand. The author analyzes the roles and relationships of the agrifood industries in the Australasia region during a period of major change. The researchers were drawn from a wide range of disciplines, but shared a common interest in the analysis of agricultural change and the impacts of current transformations at a number of levels, global, regional, and local. Unlike the United States, with its land grant colleges and freestanding departments of rural sociology, Australia and New Zealand have put only limited resources into rural-based sociological research, concentrating instead on extension and agricultural economics. The former has gone through a crisis of identity and is much reduced force in an increasingly privatized, "user-pays" environment, while the latter is generally an extremely conservative disciple, marked by theoretical rigidity, which continues to leave people and social relations out of its mathematical models.
- Subjects :
- *SOCIOECONOMICS
*FOOD industry
*SOCIAL sciences
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00360112
- Volume :
- 64
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Rural Sociology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 2164736
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1549-0831.1999.tb00012.x