Abstract: This article asserts the significance of national-scale processes in the global restruc... more Abstract: This article asserts the significance of national-scale processes in the global restructuring of agro-food systems, especially in East Asia. Using an analysis of the recent restructuring in Japanese dairy provisioning, it documents how this trade remains orchestrated by government-commercial institutions that are organized and regulated to serve domestic agrarian interests. In the context of international disagreement on the future of the liberalization of agricultural trade, the implications of this study are that models of ...
The emergence of discourses such as 'rural and regional ... more The emergence of discourses such as 'rural and regional Australia'should be of interest to researchers working in a number of sub-areas of geography. We believe that, at a minimum, an analysis of rural and regional Australia should draw upon elements of cultural, economic, political and urban geography, as well as fi elds such as rural studies and rural sociology. Insights gained from these diverse, but compatible, areas of inquiry can develop the understanding of contemporary rural and regional Australia, or what we have termed a ' ...
This chapter examines whether beef production in the Pacific Basin has been oriented increasingly... more This chapter examines whether beef production in the Pacific Basin has been oriented increasingly towards satisfying import demand by Japanese (and to a lesser degree, other North-East Asian) markets, via trade relations saturated by transnational corporate coordination and ...
Adopting a 'global value chain'approach, Value ... more Adopting a 'global value chain'approach, Value Chain Struggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South India. Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea and coffee producers Takes the reader into the lives of growers in Southern India who are struggling with issues of value chain restructuring Reveals the ways that the restructuring triggers a series of political and economic struggles across a range of economic, social, and ...
South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, Jun 10, 2013
ABSTRACT Contemporary India possesses a food security paradox—progress in combating food insecuri... more ABSTRACT Contemporary India possesses a food security paradox—progress in combating food insecurity is occurring at a slower pace than might be expected, given the nation’s rapid economic growth. This paper provides a conceptual framework to explain this phenomenon. Drawing on the work of Amartya Sen, it uses a broadly framed analysis to conceptualize the problem in terms of the interactivity between three types of entitlement failure. Firstly, Pure Exchange System entitlement (abilities to obtain food from receipt of food from welfare programs) has been curtailed by institutional shortcomings in pivotal programs. Secondly, opportunities for wage-labour entitlement (abilities to obtain food from monetary incomes) have been restricted for vulnerable households because of the sequencing and geographical patterning of recent economic growth in India. Thirdly, opportunities for vulnerable households to address their needs through own-production entitlement (abilities to grow one’s own food) have been curbed by land fragmentation and environmental degradation. These interactions have created vicious cycles of food insecurity for vulnerable households. Through this approach, the deeper causal roots of India’s food security paradox are articulated, thus underscoring the importance of multi-pronged, holistically constructed policy agendas.
Abstract This chapter explores the use of geographical identities along a coffee supply chain ext... more Abstract This chapter explores the use of geographical identities along a coffee supply chain extending from rural origins in the Toraja region of Sulawesi in eastern Indonesia through to consumption in cosmopolitan Japan. This case emphasizes the role of institutional ...
Abstract: This article asserts the significance of national-scale processes in the global restruc... more Abstract: This article asserts the significance of national-scale processes in the global restructuring of agro-food systems, especially in East Asia. Using an analysis of the recent restructuring in Japanese dairy provisioning, it documents how this trade remains orchestrated by government-commercial institutions that are organized and regulated to serve domestic agrarian interests. In the context of international disagreement on the future of the liberalization of agricultural trade, the implications of this study are that models of ...
The emergence of discourses such as 'rural and regional ... more The emergence of discourses such as 'rural and regional Australia'should be of interest to researchers working in a number of sub-areas of geography. We believe that, at a minimum, an analysis of rural and regional Australia should draw upon elements of cultural, economic, political and urban geography, as well as fi elds such as rural studies and rural sociology. Insights gained from these diverse, but compatible, areas of inquiry can develop the understanding of contemporary rural and regional Australia, or what we have termed a ' ...
This chapter examines whether beef production in the Pacific Basin has been oriented increasingly... more This chapter examines whether beef production in the Pacific Basin has been oriented increasingly towards satisfying import demand by Japanese (and to a lesser degree, other North-East Asian) markets, via trade relations saturated by transnational corporate coordination and ...
Adopting a 'global value chain'approach, Value ... more Adopting a 'global value chain'approach, Value Chain Struggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South India. Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea and coffee producers Takes the reader into the lives of growers in Southern India who are struggling with issues of value chain restructuring Reveals the ways that the restructuring triggers a series of political and economic struggles across a range of economic, social, and ...
South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, Jun 10, 2013
ABSTRACT Contemporary India possesses a food security paradox—progress in combating food insecuri... more ABSTRACT Contemporary India possesses a food security paradox—progress in combating food insecurity is occurring at a slower pace than might be expected, given the nation’s rapid economic growth. This paper provides a conceptual framework to explain this phenomenon. Drawing on the work of Amartya Sen, it uses a broadly framed analysis to conceptualize the problem in terms of the interactivity between three types of entitlement failure. Firstly, Pure Exchange System entitlement (abilities to obtain food from receipt of food from welfare programs) has been curtailed by institutional shortcomings in pivotal programs. Secondly, opportunities for wage-labour entitlement (abilities to obtain food from monetary incomes) have been restricted for vulnerable households because of the sequencing and geographical patterning of recent economic growth in India. Thirdly, opportunities for vulnerable households to address their needs through own-production entitlement (abilities to grow one’s own food) have been curbed by land fragmentation and environmental degradation. These interactions have created vicious cycles of food insecurity for vulnerable households. Through this approach, the deeper causal roots of India’s food security paradox are articulated, thus underscoring the importance of multi-pronged, holistically constructed policy agendas.
Abstract This chapter explores the use of geographical identities along a coffee supply chain ext... more Abstract This chapter explores the use of geographical identities along a coffee supply chain extending from rural origins in the Toraja region of Sulawesi in eastern Indonesia through to consumption in cosmopolitan Japan. This case emphasizes the role of institutional ...
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