Agri-Food Commodity Chains and Globalising Networks

Dr Christina Stringer is a lecturer in the Department of International Business, University of Auckland, and Richard Le Heron is a Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Contents: Introduction: mapping the concept of globalising networks, Christina Stringer and Richard Le Heron; Upgrading in South Africa's squid value chain, Charles Mather; Agribusiness and poverty reduction: what can be learned from the value chain approach?, Andreas Stamm; Big is not always better: global value chain restructuring and the crisis in South Indian tea estates, Jeffrey Neilson and Bill Pritchard; Contesting the rules of exchange: changing conventions of procurement in the MERCOSOUR Yerba mate commodity chain, Christopher Rosin; Audit me this! Kiwifruit producer uptake of the EurepGAP audit system in New Zealand, Christopher Rosin, Hugh Campbell and Lesley Hunt; Maintaining the 'clean green' image: governance of on-farm environmental practices in the New Zealand dairy industry, Paula Blackett and Richard Le Heron; A sustainable fisheries oasis? Strategy and performance in the New Zealand seafood sector, Eugene Rees; Constructing economic objects of governance: the New Zealand wine industry, Nicolas Lewis; Placing local food in a cross-border setting, Brian Ilbery and Damien Maye; Agrarian clusters and chains in rural areas of Germany and Poland, Elmar Kulke; Farmer innovations in environmental management: new approaches to agricultural sustainability?, Mairi Jay; The region as organisation: differentiation and collectivity in Bordeaux, Napa, and Chianti Classico, Jerry Patchell; Creating trust through branding: the case of Northwest Ohio's greenhouse cluster, Neil Reid and Michael C. Carroll; Growing a global resource-based company from New Zealand: the case of dairy giant Fonterra, Christina Stringer, Christine Tamásy, Richard Le Heron and Stuart A. Gray; The commodity chain at the periphery: the spar trade of Northern New Zealand in the early 19th century, Michael Roche; Akaroa cocksfoot: examining the supply chain of a defunct New Zealand agricultural export, Vaughan Wood; Biotic exchange in an imperial world: developments in the grass seed trade, Eric Pawson; Index.