Overview
- Thoroughly analyzes an organization exerting influence on behalf of a rural community
- Explains the broad range of pressures on rural communities
- The first comprehensive history of Federated Farmers
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy (AEFP)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
The book analyses agricultural economics and food policy in New Zealand, where farming produce has been by far the main export commodity. Farming exports’ importance, together with the need to diversify exports away from a former colonial relationship with the UK, makes liberalising agricultural trade a major concern for New Zealand. Farmers, themselves, have influenced, significantly, policy development and implementation through their organisation, Federated Farmers. After World War II farmers at first encouraged Government financial support for farming and by the 1980s farming was highly subsidised. Farmers recognised in the 1980s that New Zealand’s economic problems demanded reduced Government intervention and accepted ending farming subsidies. New Zealand then encouraged, globally, ‘farming without subsidies’. New Zealand projected an image of environmental cleanliness and greenness in support of its exporting but into the 21st century wrestled to maintain thatimage because farming impacted on water quality and climate change emissions.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
David Hall completed a career in space science and retired from his post as Director of Science at the British National Space Centre before he studied Humanities and History at the Open University, UK, graduating in 2010. He moved to New Zealand in 2011 and completed a PhD at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 2016. An adaptation of his dissertation was published by Palgrave in 2017, entitled Emerging from an Entrenched Colonial Economy: New Zealand Primary Production, Britain and EEC, 1945-1975. At Victoria University he tutored courses on North American history and Modern European history. His forthcoming book, New Zealand’s Invisible Women, is on the role of farm wives in New Zealand.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agricultural Economics and Food Policy in New Zealand
Book Subtitle: An Uneasy but Successful Collaboration Between Government and Farmers
Authors: David Hall
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86300-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86299-2Published: 18 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86302-9Published: 19 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86300-5Published: 17 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-3889
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3897
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 423
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour