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Australia as the Supermarket to Asia? Governments, Territory, and Political Economy in the Australian Agri‐food System
Author(s) -
Pritchard Bill
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.tb00019.x
Subject(s) - straddle , deregulation , bureaucracy , government (linguistics) , food systems , state (computer science) , public policy , politics , capital (architecture) , agriculture , political economy , economics , political science , economy , economic growth , market economy , food security , geography , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , finance , algorithm , computer science , law
Abstract The changing role of the nation state in agri‐food systems is illustrated through a case study of the Supermarket to Asia, a recent policy initiative of the Australian government. The Supermarket to Asia provides a policy discourse that fills gaps created through policies of deregulation and self‐reliance. It involves the creation of bureaucratic mechanics that straddle the public‐private interface and gives explicit attention to small and medium‐sized enterprises. In these ways, the state constructs a new set of relations, alliances, and allegiances with agri‐food capital. The durability of these arrangements depends on the extent to which these policy arrangements are perceived to be consistent with the new realities of global agri‐food trade.