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Rapid Reregulation, Agricultural Restructuring, and the Reimaging of Agriculture in New Zealand 1
Author(s) -
Heron Richard Le,
Roche Michael
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
rural sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1549-0831
pISSN - 0036-0112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1999.tb00014.x
Subject(s) - restructuring , agriculture , scope (computer science) , commodity , economic restructuring , globalization , corporate governance , agricultural policy , economics , economic policy , economic system , business , market economy , economic growth , geography , archaeology , finance , computer science , programming language
As a member of the Cairns Group, New Zealand is an excellent case for investigation of the impacts of market‐based restructuring and the emergence of new mechanisms for regulation. The paper examines how agriculture in New Zealand has been impacted by economic reforms that have fundamentally changed the nature and interrelations of regulatory arrangements and economic processes. The paper sketches the origins of New Zealand's agricultural crisis and the main features of the reforms, outlines developments in several global commodity chains (meat, dairy, apples) that since the mid 1980s have shaped regulatory and governance adjustments, and explores dimensions of a reimaging of agriculture in new conditions. The paper concludes that agri‐food restructuring in New Zealand is implicated in the wider integrative project of globalization. Agriculture's reconstruction reopens the scope and terms under which New Zealand labor and households might be able to participate in the agri‐food sector.