Product Description: This text contains papers which present up-to-date thinking on the effects of globalization and agri-food restructuring from a regional and peripheral perspective. While Australia and New Zealand are important components of the global agri-food system, the economic and political decisions which impact at the regional and local level are usually made elsewhere, for example in the boardroom of global companies and the political institutions of Europe and North America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)