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Globalisation, Agriculture and Development: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific
Author(s): Matthew Tonts (Editor), M. A.B. Siddique
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
- Publication Date: April 28, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847208185
- ISBN-13: 9781847208187
Book Description
This book explores the links between globalization, agriculture and development in a number of contemporary Asia-Pacific nations. It highlights the complex and diversified nature of agricultural change in these contexts, and the ways in which this shapes patterns of economic and social development. Globalisation, Agriculture and Development shows that while agriculture continues to play an important role in local, regional and national development, both the industry and the communities it supports are facing an increasing number of economic, social and environmental challenges.
This well-researched book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students in development studies, development economics, geography and rural sociology, public policy, politics and agricultural science. Researchers working in development studies, development economics, human geography, rural sociology, agricultural economics and rural sociology will also find this book beneficial.
Editorial Reviews
Review
’This book is an ambitious collection of 12 separate papers by different authors from Australia, New Zealand and China. . . The book is well-referenced throughout, with much new material. It is suitable for inclusion in University courses in agriculture, development studies and economic geography. Individual chapters provide up-to-date reference material for any reader interested in recent developments in agriculture for a particular country or region.’ — Mike Daw, Experimental Agriculture
‘This volume is both opportune and important. The issue of the links between globalization, agriculture and development need urgently to be emphasised in a world economy transfixed by issues of energy, industry and finance, the problems of the triad states, and the rise of the BRICs. The chapters in this volume begin this task through studies of agricultural change in Asia-Pacific countries, including Australia, New Zealand, the ASEAN nations, India and China. They show the uneven impacts of liberalization, contracting, and modernization that bring social change in their wake.’ — Mike Taylor, University of Birmingham, UK
About the Author
Edited by Matthew Tonts, Director, Institute for Regional Development, The University of Western Australia and M.A.B. Siddique, Associate Professor in Economics, Business School, University of Western Australia
