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13 - Globalisation and local agricultural landscapes: patterns of change, policy dilemmas and research questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

By
Simon Swaffield  and
Jørgen Primdahl
Edited by
Jørgen Primdahl  and
Simon Swaffield
Jørgen Primdahl
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen
Simon Swaffield
Affiliation:
Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Introduction

The rich diversity of agricultural landscapes within developed economies that have evolved around the world over sometimes thousands of years are now becoming more and more interconnected. The local agents who manage these landscapes – farmers, other landowners, managers and communities – are increasingly part of a global network society (Castells, 2000), made up of transnational organisations, rapidly changing global markets and international policy imperatives, linked through new technologies (Stringer and Le Heron, 2008). The interrelatedness of local landscape change with the processes of globalisation was illustrated in the opening chapter of this volume through an account of two dairy farmers on opposite sides of the world, each affected in various ways by the intersecting dynamics of market liberalisation and sustainability agendas.

The farmers' situation was described on a November morning in 2007. In the 12 months that followed, much happened in the global network society of which they are both part. A global financial crisis led to economic recession in developed and developing countries, and as a consequence, the two farmers had to deal with increasingly volatile market conditions for their products, currency fluctuations and a rapid change in the environment for new investment. Both farmers experienced a sharp introduction to the moral economy of food (Marsden, 2003; Morgan et al., 2007), when the cooperatives to whom they supply milk were both affected by a food safety scandal in China involving contamination of milk powder, which affected the lives and health of thousands of babies.

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Globalisation and Agricultural Landscapes
Change Patterns and Policy trends in Developed Countries
 , pp. 245 - 270
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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