Abstract
IN 1984, THE GOVERNMENT OF NEW ZEALAND ANNOUNCED THE UNTHINKABLE. Faced with mounting deficits and spiraling inflation, the country abandoned the extensive programs that had been cushioning farmers with as much as 40 percent of their total income through the 1970s and early 1980s.
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New Zealand Winegrowers, “Annual Report 2016,” New Zealand Wine, 2016, https://www.nzwine.com/en/news-media/statistics-reports/new-zealand-winegrowers-annual-report/.
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Sayre, “Farming without Subsidies?”
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Vangelis Vitalis, “Agricultural Subsidy Reform and Its Implications for Sustainable Development: The New Zealand Experience,” Environmental Sciences 4, no. 1 (2007): 21–40.
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“New Zealand’s Two-Way Trade with China More than Triples over the Decade,” Stats New Zealand, March 1, 2018, https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/new-zealands-two-way-trade-with-china-more-than-triples-over-the-decade.
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“Trade with China Nearly Tripled in Past Decade,” Stats New Zealand, September 6, 2016, http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/industry_sectors/imports_and_exports/trade-china-tripled-decade.aspx.
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Baskaran, Cullen, and Colombo, “Estimating Values of Environmental Impacts.”
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Imhoff, D., Badaracco, C. (2019). An Alternative System. In: The Farm Bill. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-975-3_14
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