Family farmers, real regulation, and the experience of food regimes

Moran, Warren; Blunden, Greg; Workman, Martin; Bradly, Adrian

doi:10.1016/0743-0167(96)00016-2

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“…Reflecting on these issues in his book Globalised Agriculture: Political Choice, Le Heron (1993) argued that the advancement of Uruguay Round objectives would lead inexorably to the de-nationalisation of food systems, as circuits of capital in agrofood production, exchange and reproduction become beholden to footloose global corporations and financial institutions' (forthcoming). Moran et al (1996) use New Zealand and French rural political mobilisations to specify national regulatory variation, which they argue differentiates agro-commodity chains within food regimes at large.…”

Section: Another Food Regime?mentioning

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A food regime genealogy

McMichael

2009

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Food regime analysis emerged to explain the strategic role of agriculture and food in the construction of the world capitalist economy. It identifies stable periods of capital accumulation associated with particular configurations of geopolitical power, conditioned by forms of agricultural production and consumption relations within and across national spaces. Contradictory relations within food regimes produce crisis, transformation, and transition to successor regimes. This 'genealogy' traces the development of food regime analysis in relation to historical and intellectual trends over the past two decades, arguing that food regime analysis underlines agriculture's foundational role in political economy/ecology.

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Section: Another Food Regime?mentioning

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A food regime genealogy

McMichael

2009

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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“…Recognising that social actors play a key role in shaping government decision-making, Moran et al . (1996) are acknowledged as having provided 'a framework for analysing the rules governing economy, society and environment, and the processes by which these rules evolve' (Cocklin et al , 1997, 33).…”

Section: 'Real Regulation' In the Urban Fringementioning

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Agricultural Adaptation to Real Regulation on the Urban Fringe: The Chicken Meat Industry's Response to Land‐use Conflict in the Western Port Region of Victoria, Australia

Henderson¹

2003

Australian Geographical Studies

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Research theorising the rural-urban fringe has not focussed in detail on the regulatory system managing land-use conflict, including disputes arising between agricultural enterprises and residential property owners. To explore local forms of regulation the need to identify relevant actors, their interrelationships and the way that they compete to influence decision-makers is widely recognised in the literature. Moran et al .'s (1996) conceptualisation of 'real regulation', with its emphasis on lobbying by social actors and the (re)formulation of legislation, is identified as a theoretical perspective that can help to explain local forms of regulation. The understanding of patterns of regulation on the urban fringe requires a more detailed conceptualisation of non-legislative forms of policy, and a greater appreciation of the different strategies adopted by farmers to influence government. This paper investigates how urban fringe agricultural industries have attempted to influence decision-making within the development approval process. Evidence is presented from the Western Port region in the urban fringe of Melbourne, Victoria, where refusal for the construction of broiler sheds by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has resulted in the chicken meat industry adopting a more scientific siting strategy. It is concluded that, whilst this provides an example of agricultural adaptation and reinforces the importance of adopting a temporal dimension to investigate the land development process, the possibility that government will assess environmental harm differently in the future leaves urban fringe broiler farming in a precarious position.

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“…Just as an overview of the institutional setting embedding economic processes in New Zealand territory shows a clear history and geography in the phasing and impacts of macro-economic management of the economy (Britton et al . 1992 ;Le Heron and Pawson 1996), commodity chain analysis reveals how reregulation is foremost a revaluing of existing investment and labor processes in a new context created by institutional change (Le Heron and Roche 1996a ; Moran et al 1996a) . This social revaluing process is simultaneously a differentiating and a repositioning process, which demands a reassessment of prevailing social practices and widespread experimentation, adoption, and evaluation of practices thought better suited to new times (Hayward et al .…”

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Rapid Reregulation, Agricultural Restructuring, and the Reimaging of Agriculture in New Zealand¹

Heron

Roche

1999

Rural Sociology

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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.

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Family farmers, real regulation, and the experience of food regimes

Cited by 33 publications

References 21 publications

A food regime genealogy

A food regime genealogy

Agricultural Adaptation to Real Regulation on the Urban Fringe: The Chicken Meat Industry's Response to Land‐use Conflict in the Western Port Region of Victoria, Australia

Rapid Reregulation, Agricultural Restructuring, and the Reimaging of Agriculture in New Zealand¹

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Family farmers, real regulation, and the experience of food regimes

Cited by 33 publications

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A food regime genealogy

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Agricultural Adaptation to Real Regulation on the Urban Fringe: The Chicken Meat Industry's Response to Land‐use Conflict in the Western Port Region of Victoria, Australia

Rapid Reregulation, Agricultural Restructuring, and the Reimaging of Agriculture in New Zealand1

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