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The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late
2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness
investments around the world. This phenomenon became known as the
"global land grab", and sparked vibrant debates among social
movements, NGOs, international development agencies and various
government agencies and academics worldwide. This book addresses
four key areas that are moving the debate "beyond land grabs".
These include the role of contract farming and differentiation
among farm workers in the consolidation of farmland; the broader
forms of dispossession and mechanisms of control and value grabbing
beyond "classic" land grabs for agricultural production; discourses
about, and responses to, Chinese agribusiness investments abroad;
and the relationship between financialization and land grabbing.
The chapters in this edited volume propose new directions to deepen
and even transform the research agenda on land struggles and
agro-industrial restructuring around the world. This book will be
of great interest to scholars and researchers interested in
development studies, agrarian changes and land struggles. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of the journal, Globalizations.
The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late
2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness
investments around the world. This phenomenon became known as the
"global land grab", and sparked vibrant debates among social
movements, NGOs, international development agencies and various
government agencies and academics worldwide. This book addresses
four key areas that are moving the debate "beyond land grabs".
These include the role of contract farming and differentiation
among farm workers in the consolidation of farmland; the broader
forms of dispossession and mechanisms of control and value grabbing
beyond "classic" land grabs for agricultural production; discourses
about, and responses to, Chinese agribusiness investments abroad;
and the relationship between financialization and land grabbing.
The chapters in this edited volume propose new directions to deepen
and even transform the research agenda on land struggles and
agro-industrial restructuring around the world. This book will be
of great interest to scholars and researchers interested in
development studies, agrarian changes and land struggles. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of the journal, Globalizations.
Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms
of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the
pinnacle of modernist agro-industrial practices, serving as a key
nexus in food-feed-fuel production that underpins the
agribusiness-conservationist discourse of "land sparing" through
intensification. Yet soy production is implicated in multiple
problems beyond deforestation, ranging from pesticide drift and
contamination to social exclusion and conflicts in frontier zones,
to concentration of wealth and income among the largest landowners
and corporations. This book explores in depth the complex dynamics
of soy production from its diverse social settings to its
transnational connections, examining the politics of commodity and
knowledge production, the role of the state, and the reach of
corporate power in everyday life across soy landscapes in South
America. Ultimately, the collection encourages us to search and
struggle for agroecological alternatives through which we may
overcome the pitfalls of this massive transnational capitalist
agro-industry. This book was originally published as a special
issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms
of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the
pinnacle of modernist agro-industrial practices, serving as a key
nexus in food-feed-fuel production that underpins the
agribusiness-conservationist discourse of "land sparing" through
intensification. Yet soy production is implicated in multiple
problems beyond deforestation, ranging from pesticide drift and
contamination to social exclusion and conflicts in frontier zones,
to concentration of wealth and income among the largest landowners
and corporations. This book explores in depth the complex dynamics
of soy production from its diverse social settings to its
transnational connections, examining the politics of commodity and
knowledge production, the role of the state, and the reach of
corporate power in everyday life across soy landscapes in South
America. Ultimately, the collection encourages us to search and
struggle for agroecological alternatives through which we may
overcome the pitfalls of this massive transnational capitalist
agro-industry. This book was originally published as a special
issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.
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