There have been dramatic changes in New Zealand's geopolitical and international trading relationship during the last three decades. In that time the close economic and political ties with the UK have been replaced by a new set that have drawn New Zealand firmly into Asia Pacific trading realm....

The world's agrifood systems have been transformed by a process of globalization in which ever-closer functional integration of the world's economies has occurred, supported by the Internet, the rise of transnational corporations, and the removal of many barriers to trade and investment. This...