Global supply chains and networking: A critical perspective on learning challenges in the New Zealand dairy and sheepmeat commodity chains
采用知识系统框架，结合网络化维度，探讨新西兰乳制品和肉类出口链中农民与加工商关系的重组问题，指出网络化方法可作为政策工具。
Vertical and horizontal networks in food chains and rural areas interact on rural development through a potentially global reach. This paper adopts a knowledge systems framework incorporating networking dimensions to explore problems of supply chain reorganisation. In New Zealand this framework is being applied in agri‐industries through the input of research institutes, partly in response to buyer‐driven pressures for supply chain realignment and production to more precise specification. The paper reports on networking interventions by AgResearch in the farmer‐processor relation in two New Zealand export food chains (dairy and meat). Findings from the Learning Challenges Project where focus groups are used to conceptualise and define aspects of the chains and to ascertain knowledge networking dimensions point to the potential of networking methodologies as policy tools.