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    Cuba under Raul Castro: Assessing the Reforms
    Hearn, AH (Wiley, 2018-01-01)
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    State-Society Trust in Sino-Brazilian Agriculture
    HEARN, A (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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    Beanstalks and Trust in Chinese and Brazilian Food Systems
    Hearn, A (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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    Innovation in an expanding market: Australian pork is not a commodity
    Bittner, EP ; Ashman, H ; Hastie, M ; van Barneveld, RJ ; Hearn, AH ; Thomson, N ; Dunshea, FR (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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    Australia and South America: Toward Dialogue on China
    HEARN, A (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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    ¿Confucio versus Zeus? China, Brasil y la Producción Alimentaria
    HEARN, A (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».