Financialization of Agri-Food Systems

Hilde Bjørkhaug is Research Professor at Ruralis – Institute for Rural and Regional Research, Trondheim, Norway. André Magnan is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Regina, Canada. Geoffrey Lawrence is Emeritus Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland, Australia.

• 1. Introduction: The Financialization of Agri-food Part I How are Food and Farming being ‘Financialized’? 2. The Concept of ‘Financialization’: Criticisms and Insights 3. Profit, Aid and Ethics in Public Financialization 4. Strategic Financialization? The Emergence of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Global Food System 5. Opening the Black Boxes of Finance-Gone-Farming: A Global Analysis of Assetization 6. Farmland Values: Media and Public Discourses around Farmland Investment in Canada and Australia Part II Financialization of the Food Industry 7. Riding the Waves of Crises: Finance, Food and Political Tumult in Egypt 8. Financialization in Japanese Agri-food Regimes: Uncovering the Role of Sogo-shosha in Global Soy Investment 9. Poultry Grabs and Agri-food Financialization: The Case of JBS of Brazil 10. Between Cooperative and Private Equity Capital in the Norwegian Food Sector: How do the Corporate, Cultural and Political Environments Make a Difference? Part III Financialization of Farming and Forestry 11. Old Roots, New Shoots: Thickening the Local Histories of Agri-food Financialization 12. Canadian Supply Management as a Bulwark against Financialization 13. The Local Counterparts of Financialization: Organizational Accomplishments of Farm/land Investments and Sales 14. Financialization and the Swedish Land Acquisition Act 15. Institutional Investment in a Multi-functional Forested Landscape: Neoliberalism and Pragmatism in Contemporary Land conservation