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Growing Apples and the ‘Growing Pains' of Restructuring for New Zealand's Pipfruit Industry
Author(s) -
McKENNA MEGAN
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.1998.tb02077.x
Subject(s) - restructuring , globalization , sustainability , desk , face (sociological concept) , business , market economy , economy , economic geography , economic policy , political science , economics , finance , sociology , social science , ecology , law , biology
Numerous urgent issues face New Zealand's pipfruit industry at the close of the decade. Oversupplied and competitive global markets, shifting policy environments, and industry ‘clawback’ place increasing pressures on pipfruit's single desk marketing system. This paper identifies the importance of interregional production dynamics and some policy challenges surrounding discourses of globalisation, sustainability and restructuring.