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ItemCuba under Raul Castro: Assessing the Reforms(Wiley, 2018-01-01)
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ItemState-Society Trust in Sino-Brazilian Agriculture(Springer, 2015)As Chinese cities edge toward projections of one billion residents by 2025, they are generating unprecedented demand for food. Ambitions to meet this demand with domestic production are still far from reality, prompting Chinese agriculture enterprises to buy and invest overseas. This article examines the consequences for Brazil, which in 2013 provided 45 % of China’s soybean imports. It finds that diverging traditions of state-society trust have provoked Brazilian uncertainties about the objectives and management practices of investing Chinese actors. It concludes that successful “South-South” relations between China and Brazil will require fresh approaches to trust between state and society that break with previous development theory and practice.
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ItemBuilding Sustainable Food Systems in the Asian Century: A Matter of Tradition(Latin American Studies Association, 2021)
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ItemQualitative assessment of value in Australian pork across cultures(CSIRO PUBLISHING, 2022)Context The Australian pork industry would benefit greatly from further development of export markets across Asia, but due to the small size of the Australian industry and cultural differences between Asia and the West, further insight into research is required for premium product development. Aims Qualitatively assess value in Australian pork across Australian and Chinese consumer groups to investigate perceived differences in cultural attitudes to pork. Methods Qualitative multivariate analysis (QMA). Key results Australian and Chinese opinions of Australian pork products, meat and offal, and farming systems differed significantly. Australian consumers desired expert opinion, traditional meat cuts with minimal packaging, and small-scale production with superior animal welfare. Chinese consumers wanted clean, healthy and versatile products, with consistent quality, without concerns around animal welfare. Conclusions The compatibility of the markets and consumer preferences show great promise for Australian pork holding value in the eyes of Chinese consumers, Implications Results offer insight for future product development for export and targeted domestic markets. Findings will also enable future quantitative research efforts to be more targeted and specific.
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ItemBuilding knowledge in urban agriculture: the challenges of local food production in Sao Paulo and Melbourne(SPRINGER, 2021-02)Urban environments face multiple burdens and significant challenges related to food safety and sustainable agriculture. Urban agriculture remains fragmented and incipient in many cities worldwide. In their efforts to ensure sustainable urban food systems and provide public access to affordable and quality food, city governments must identify and pursue emerging opportunities. This study analyzed how São Paulo and Melbourne are working to overcome the related challenges.
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ItemDigging up the past: urban agriculture narratives in Melbourne and São Paulo(Informa UK Limited, 2021-01-01)As urban agriculture becomes increasingly recognised as a contributor to nutritional and civic wellbeing, real estate developers and community associations have promoted it to advance distinct agendas. The article analyses this phenomenon in Melbourne and São Paulo, where colonial and industrial legacies have set the stage for urban agriculture’s resurgence and resulting “internal contradictions.” Developers of upmarket condominiums in both cities advertise urban agriculture as a purchasable commodity capable of recovering customers’ lost connections with nature and each other. However, the gentrifying effects of these developments deepen rather than alleviate social and environmental ills. By contrast, community projects profiled in four case studies emphasised urban agriculture’s ability to confront the long-term neglect of land, employment, and environment. We conclude that the capacity of urban agriculture to improve food systems is enhanced when proponents develop historically informed narratives that engage and inform consumers and municipal governments.
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ItemBeanstalks and Trust in Chinese and Brazilian Food Systems(University of Texas Press, 2018-07-01)The growth of Chinese cities to an expected 860 million people has generated unprecedented demand for Latin American agriculture products, but the intensification of industrial farming has provoked shortages of safe and healthy food in both regions. For Brazil, the deficiencies result from the loss of rural livelihoods to export-oriented soy and cattle farming, resulting rural-urban migration, and the consequent destruction of peri-urban family farms as cities grow. For China, agricultural industrialization has involved greater reliance on chemical inputs and contamination with pollutants, provoking widespread public distrust in the safety of food. Through case studies from Beijing and Rio de Janeiro, the article examines efforts to address these concerns through localized urban food programs that build trust between producers, consumers, and governments. I call the protagonists behind these initiatives beanstalks, arguing that they represent a new variety of globally networked intermediary. Like the fabled beanstalk climbed by Jack, they link local realities to a wider universe of promise and peril.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableInnovation in an expanding market: Australian pork is not a commodity(CSIRO PUBLISHING, 2017)The growing Asian middle class, the proliferation of export markets and a more discerning domestic consumer base are creating new opportunities and challenges for the Australian pork industry. To fully capitalise on these opportunities and face these new challenges, the right questions need to be asked by the Australian pork industry. We need to know not only what our consumers want, but who our consumers are. The present paper aims to demonstrate that novel approaches to investigate consumer attitudes will be required, and it cannot be assumed that current productions systems, products and marketing strategies are optimal for the changing environment and the creation of new premium market opportunities. With new markets and new products come new consumers; identifying who those consumers are, the networks they operate within as food consumers, and what influences their purchasing decisions are the key to their adopting Australian pork as premium produce in a new global market.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAustralia and South America: Toward Dialogue on China(China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, 2012)China Express: 2012 Second edition The second edition of China Express (http://sydney.edu.au/china_studies_centre/china_express/issue_2/) , the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney's online magazine is now available. Articles in this edition are by two of the sixteen academic groups within the CSC: International Relations and Social and Political Change. Submissions are by the following academic members of the China Studies Centre: Dr. Beatriz Garcia Carrillo (China's welfare policies: the future of welfare?) Dr. Minglu Chen (Female Entrepreneurs, Business Performance, and the Party-State in China) Dr. Justin Hastings (International Commerce and Dark Networks in East Asia: China and North Korean Economic Networks) Dr. James Reilly (Studying China's Economic Statecraft) Dr. Adrian Hearn (Australia and South America: Toward Dialogue on China) Professor Christine Inglis (Australia and China- Linked by Migration)
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Item¿Confucio versus Zeus? China, Brasil y la Producción Alimentaria(Nueva Sociedad, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2015-10-29)A medida que las ciudades chinas se van acercando a los pronósticos de 1.000 millones de habitantes para 2025, están empezando a generar una demanda de alimentos sin precedentes. Aún se está muy lejos de satisfacer esta demanda con la producción interna, lo cual hace que algunas empresas agrícolas chinas compren e inviertan en el exterior. Este artículo examina las consecuencias para Brasil y la desconfianza que existe allí respecto a los objetivos y las prácticas de gestión de los inversores chinos, que plantea nuevos desafíos a las relaciones «Sur-Sur».