Contents: Introduction. Agriculture and Rural Life in Late Modernity: Rurality and late modernity in transition countries: the case of Bulgaria, Veska Kozhucharova and Rossitsa Rangelova (Bulgaria); Food industry responses to global integration: fruit producers, state legislators and women farm workers in South Africa, Andrienatta Kritzinger and Jan Vorster (South Africa); Institutionalization and resistance: organic agriculture in Australia and New Zealand, Kristen Lyons and Geoffrey Lawrence (Australia). Food Producers and Food Consumers: The evolution of rural food provisioning between 1978 and 1991, Gwenaël Larmet (France); The impact of consumer trust in the Norwegian food market, Oddveig Storstadt (Norway); Towards a consumer images approach - exploring the quirks of modern food consumer behaviour, J.C. Dagevos and H.J.M. Hansman (The Netherlands).

Living with Nature?: Changing social representations of the countryside: rurality, nature and heritage within a French National Park, Eileen O'Rourke (France); Farm families as local environmental managers?: a case study on wider farming development, Bareld van der Ploeg (The Netherlands); Reading participation in forest management through modern and post-modern concepts, or: where to start normative debates? Urs Geiser (Switzerland). Rural Development, Policy, and Civil Society: Becoming part of the union - changing rurality in East Germany, Rosemarie Siebert (Germany) and Lutz Laschewski (UK); Europeanising rural Hungary - rural policy networks and policy representations of the countryside in Hungary in the 1990s, András Csite (Hungary); The role of associations in local development - the case of Garfagnana, Giorgio Osti (Italy); From agricultural to rural co-operation in France's midi vineyard: network theory for a renewal of innovative collective action, Yuna Chiffoleau (France); The co-operative movement in Ireland: reconstructing civil society, Hilary Tovey (Ireland); Bibliography.