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" Agri-food commodity chains and globalising networks / "
by Christina Stringer and Richard Le Heron.
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BL
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1039246
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b793616
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Stringer, Christina.
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Agri-food commodity chains and globalising networks /\ by Christina Stringer and Richard Le Heron.
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Aldershot, Hants, England ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate,, ©2008.
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Dynamics of economic space
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1 online resource.
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0754693767
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: 9780754693765
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0754673367
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9780754673361
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: Mapping the Concept of Globalising Networks; 2 Upgrading in South Africa's Squid Value Chain; 3 Agribusiness and Poverty Reduction: What Can be Learned from the Value Chain Approach?; 4 Big is Not Always Better: Global Value Chain Restructuring and the Crisis in South Indian Tea Estates; 5 Contesting the Rules of Exchange: Changing Conventions of Procurement in the MERCOSUR Yerba Mate Commodity Chain; 6 Audit Me This! Kiwifruit Producer Uptake of the EurepGAP Audit System in New Zealand.
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Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of anthropologists, economists, business and management academics and geographers, this book examines a wide range of case studies illustrating various agri-food commodity chains and networks around the world and discusses how they link globally.
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Agricultural industries.
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Commodity exchanges.
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Globalization.
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Agricultural industries.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industries-- Agribusiness.
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Commodity exchanges.
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Globalization.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Agriculture-- Sustainable Agriculture.
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338.1 22 22 22
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HD9000.4.S77 2008eb
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Le Heron, Richard B.
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