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...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Coming Together to Work Collectively -- Chapter 3: Struggling Towards a Unified Organisation -- Chapter 4: Emerging from wartime conditions -- Chapter 5: Impact nationally and internationally -- Chapter 6: Farming anxieties and a more favourable Government...

This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes...

Intro -- Emerging From an Entrenched Colonial Economy -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 General -- 1.2 Primary Producers: A Conservative or Innovative Community? -- 1.3 Chapter Themes -- 1.4 Sources -- 2 Changing Relationships...