Monash Publication No.50/GES

Part One: State management processes and rural agency

1 Agricultural restructuring under conditions of drought in Central Queensland
Geoffrey Lawrence, Ian Gray, Dani Stehlik and Helen Bulis

2 Landcare and the state: 'Action at a distance' in a globalised world economy
Stewart Lockie

3 Participation and innovation on South Canterbury farms
Alison Loveridge and Carolyn Morris

4 Deregulation and the growth of grains co-operatives
Bill Pritchard

Part Two: Organics in theory and practice

5 Understanding organic farm practice: Contributions from ecofeminism
Kristen Lyons

6 The Australian organic basket and the global supermarket
Andrew Monk

Part Three: Social responses to biotechnology regimes

7 Globalisation and gene-biotechnology: From the centre to the semi-periphery
Richard Hindmarsh

8 Ownership and control of genetic material: Concerns about intellectual property rights
Wayne Hancock

9 Public issues in the biological control of rabbits in New Zealand
Roger Wilkinson and Gerard Fitzgerald

Part Four: Changes in Third World agriculture

10 Contract farming: Structure and management in developing nations
Charles Eaton

11 Shrimp aquaculture and the Third World: Economic, social and environmental transformations
Jasper Goss, David Burch and Roy E. Rickson

Part Five: Cultured agriculture - integrating rural and cultural studies

12 Beer and Double Vision: Linking the consumer to the rural through New Zealand television beer advertising
Hugh Campbell and Anna Kraack