Lockie, Stewart (2005) Interpreting the Australian-Philippines food trade in the context of debates on food security. In: Fold, Niels, and Pritchard, Bill, (eds.) Cross-continental food chains. Routledge Studies in Human Geography, 12 . Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 94-108.

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[Extract] Since 1992, the Australian government has implemented a number of strategies designed to capitalize on the ostensibly natural market provided to Australian food exporters by the rapidly growing populations and economies of Asia (Pritchard 1999). On the surface, increased exports to the region appeared to offer a win-win solution to export-oriented Australian farmers faced with the need to secure new markets in order to arrest declining terms of trade, and to Asian governments and consumers faced with the prospect of procuring enough food of sufficient variety to satisfy both the basic needs of growing populations and the changing tastes of the affluent middle classes. Despite the seemingly straightforward logic of positioning Australia as a 'Supermarket to Asia', in 2002 Philippine farmers hurled rotten vegetables at metropolitan supermarkets in protest at the importation of Australian vegetables (Lamarta 2002a). Local government representatives claimed that between April and October 2002, produce from the mountainous Cordillera region worth P21 million (approximately US$400,000) was displaced from Metro Manila and Cebu markets by imported vegetables (Philippine Daily Inquirer 2002), some 93 per cent of which were sourced in Australia and sold under the misleading local name 'Baguio vegetables' (Lacuarta 2002b).

Item ID:	31138
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	0-415-33793-3
Date Deposited:	06 Sep 2017 04:16
FoR Codes:	16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1608 Sociology > 160801 Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment @ 100%
SEO Codes:	96 ENVIRONMENT > 9605 Ecosystem Assessment and Management > 960504 Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments @ 20% 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9607 Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards > 960707 Trade and Environment @ 50% 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9607 Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards > 960702 Consumption Patterns, Population Issues and the Environment @ 30%
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