Figures and tables

List of contributors

Preface

1 Introduction: Australasian perspectives on agri-food restructuring

David Burch

Roy E. Rickson

Geoffrey Lawrence

Part One: Theoretical perspectives

2 Theoretical issues in global agri-food restructuring

Frederick H. Buttel

3 Contemporary agri-food restructuring: Australia and New Zealand

Geoffrey Lawrence

4 Eco-commodity systems: Historical geographies of context, articulation and embeddedness under capitalism

Richard Le Heron

Michael Roche

5 The detraditionalization of farming

Ian Gray

Part Two: Commodity analysis

6 The uneasy transition to globalization: Restructuring of the Australian tomato processing industry

David Burch

Bill Pritchard

7 Australian sugar in the global economy: Recent trends, emerging problems

Linda Hungerford

8 Restructuring in the Australian dairy industry: The reconstruction and reinvention of co-operatives

Bill Pritchard

9 Organic agriculture in New Zealand: Corporate greening, transnational corporations and sustainable agriculture

Hugh Campbell

Part Three: Trends in the growing, marketing and retailing of foods

10 Contract farming in organizational agriculture: The effects upon farmers and the environment

Roy E. Rickson

David Burch

11 Contract farming under globally-oriented and locally-emergent agribusiness in Tasmania

Leigh Miller

12 Farmer decision making under contract farming in northern Tasmania

Amabel L.A. Fulton

Robert J. Clark

13 Agro-industrialization and social change within the Australian context: A case study of the fast food industry

Kristen Lyons

14 Supermarkets and the supply of fresh fruit and vegetables in Australia: Implications for wholesale markets

Hermione Parsons

Part Four: Linking the local and the global

15 Linking the global and the local: Ethnographic perspectives on farm practice and the globalization of agriculture

Emily Phillips

16 The globalized agriculture-finance relation: South Australian farm families and communities in a new regulatory environment

Neil Argent

17 Entrenched farm indebtedness and the process of agrarian change: A case study and its implications

Peter J. Smailes

18 Globalized agriculture and agri-food restructuring in southeast Asia: The Thai experience

David Burch

Index