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Journal of Economic Geography 1:439-456 (2001)
Copyright © 2001 Oxford University Press

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Global supply chains and networking: A critical perspective on learning challenges in the New Zealand dairy and sheepmeat commodity chains

Richard Le Heron, Guy Penny, Mark Paine, Gavin Sheath, Justine Pedersen and Neels Botha

Department of Geography, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. <r.leheron{at}auckland.ac.nz>
Department of Land and Food, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
AgResearch, Hamilton, New Zealand

Abstract

Vertical and horizontal networks in food chains and rural areas interact on rural development through a potentially global reach. This paper adopts a knowledge systems framework incorporating networking dimensions to explore problems of supply chain reorganisation. In New Zealand this framework is being applied in agri-industries through the input of research institutes, partly in response to buyer-driven pressures for supply chain realignment and production to more precise specification. The paper reports on networking interventions by AgResearch in the farmer-processor relation in two New Zealand export food chains (dairy and meat). Findings from the Learning Challenges Project where focus groups are used to conceptualise and define aspects of the chains and to ascertain knowledge networking dimensions point to the potential of networking methodologies as policy tools.

Keywords: knowledge systems, learning processes, networking, food supply chains

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