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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.
The economic and political rise of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia,
India, China, and South Africa) and Middle-Income Countries (MICs)
have important implications for global agrarian
transformation.These emerging economies are undergoing profound
changes as key sites of the production, circulation, and
consumption of agricultural commodities; hosts to abundant cheap
labour and natural resources; and home to growing numbers of both
poor but also, increasingly, affluent consumers. Separately and
together these countries are shaping international development
agendas both as partners in and potential alternatives to the
development paradigms promoted by the established hubs of global
capital in the North Atlantic and by dominant international
financial institutions. Collectively, the chapters in this book
show the significance of BRICS countries in reshaping agro-food
systems at the national and regional level as well as their global
significance. As they export their own farming and production
systems across different contexts, though, the outcomes are
contingent and success is not assured. At the same time, BRICS may
represent a continuation rather than an alternative to the
development paradigms of the Global North. The chapters were
originally published in a special issue of Third World Thematics: A
TWQ Journal.
This book demonstrates various types of deepwater risers with
different motion equations and boundary conditions depending on
their different structural configurations. It also discusses the
hydrodynamic analysis methods of different deepwater risers. It
provides new force and structure models in time and frequency
domains of vortex induced force, including that for a downstream
riser of the tandem riser, and the rigid oscillating model for
steel catenary riser. The highlights of this book are the analysis
methods of the rigid oscillating mode of steel catenary riser and
the coupling iteration for top-tensioned riser with pipe-in-pipe
configuration. This book is interesting and useful to a wide
readership in the various fields of ocean engineering and offshore
oil & gas development.
This book demonstrates various types of deepwater risers with
different motion equations and boundary conditions depending on
their different structural configurations. It also discusses the
hydrodynamic analysis methods of different deepwater risers. It
provides new force and structure models in time and frequency
domains of vortex induced force, including that for a downstream
riser of the tandem riser, and the rigid oscillating model for
steel catenary riser. The highlights of this book are the analysis
methods of the rigid oscillating mode of steel catenary riser and
the coupling iteration for top-tensioned riser with pipe-in-pipe
configuration. This book is interesting and useful to a wide
readership in the various fields of ocean engineering and offshore
oil & gas development.
The economic and political rise of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia,
India, China, and South Africa) and Middle-Income Countries (MICs)
have important implications for global agrarian
transformation.These emerging economies are undergoing profound
changes as key sites of the production, circulation, and
consumption of agricultural commodities; hosts to abundant cheap
labour and natural resources; and home to growing numbers of both
poor but also, increasingly, affluent consumers. Separately and
together these countries are shaping international development
agendas both as partners in and potential alternatives to the
development paradigms promoted by the established hubs of global
capital in the North Atlantic and by dominant international
financial institutions. Collectively, the chapters in this book
show the significance of BRICS countries in reshaping agro-food
systems at the national and regional level as well as their global
significance. As they export their own farming and production
systems across different contexts, though, the outcomes are
contingent and success is not assured. At the same time, BRICS may
represent a continuation rather than an alternative to the
development paradigms of the Global North. The chapters were
originally published in a special issue of Third World Thematics: A
TWQ Journal.
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