ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the challenges confronting agricultural interest group organizations in western developed nations at the beginning of the 21st century. It concerns those groups that make a claim to be general in coverage and national in focus. The prominence of these types of groups as important state 'partners' in post-war agricultural development has served as a benchmark against which to make some rudimentary assessment about re faring in what has been referred to as a 'globalizing era'. The book illustrates the different origins of the agricultural interest groups we find prominent today. It reviews the contemporary challenges facing groups in Western Europe, North America and Australasia. The book establishes that the fate of groups partially rested with the constitution of the group environment.
