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The Financialization of Agri-Food Systems - Contested Transformations (Hardcover)
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The Financialization of Agri-Food Systems - Contested Transformations (Hardcover)
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
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Financialization is the increased influence of financial actors and
logics on social and economic life, and is one of the key drivers
transforming food systems and rural economies around the world. The
premise of this book is that the actions of financial actors, and
their financial logics, are transforming agri-food systems in
profound ways. It is shown that although financialization is a
powerful dynamic, some recent developments suggest that the rollout
of financialization is contradictory and uneven in different spaces
and markets. The book examines cases in which state regulation or
re-regulation and social movement resistance are setting roadblocks
or speed bumps in the path of financialization, resulting in a
'cooling off' of investment, as well as the other side of the
argument where there is evidence of a 'heating up'. The authors
address not only the limits to financialization, but also the
mechanisms through which financial entities are able to penetrate
and re-shape agri-food industries. This book provides both a
comparative analysis of financialization blending, and empirical
findings with conceptual insights. It explores the connection
between financialization, food systems, and rural transformation by
critically examining: the concept of financialization and how food
and farming are being financialized; the impacts of
financialization in the food industry; and financialization in
farming and forestry - along with the impacts this has on rural
people and communities. This is a timely book, bringing together
concrete case studies, from around the globe, to reveal the
operations and impacts of finance capital in the 'space' of
agri-food.
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