Resisting Agribusiness in the Global South

Capitalism, Ecology, and Agrarian Change

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary discussion of agribusiness across the Global South and emerging resistance and alternatives to it.Bringing together researchers and policymakers from Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the book details the social, economic, ecological, and food-insecurity impacts of agribusiness expansion across all these regions. With special emphasis on the perspectives of early career researchers and other emerging voices, it provides new, on-the-ground insights into relations between agribusiness and global commodity chains; entanglements between agribusiness, ecological plunder, and food insecurity; and emerging trends among Global-South-led alternatives and resistance to the current neoliberal status quo. In organizing itself into clear sections under these three themes, it brings out hidden connections between experiences at the national, regional, and global levels.This is a must-have resource for students, researchers, policymakers, and activists concerned with Global South development, sustainable development, sustainable agriculture, regional planning, and food studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-02-04
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt387 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350613751

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Avinash Kumar teaches at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. His research interests include the political economy of labour, informality, migration, and movements of resistance.Aaron Schneider is a professor in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA. His work focuses on the intersection of wealth and power in the Global South, with an emphasis on public finance as a window into the political economy of development and democracy.

Introduction: Agribusiness in the Global South: Theory, Crisis, and Resistance. Avinash Kumar and Aaron Schneider Part I. Agribusiness and Global Commodity Chains1. Expansion of Agrarian Capital and Soy Production in ParaguayRamón Fogel (Centro de Estudios Rurales Interdisciplinarios, Paraguay) and Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete (University of New Brunswick, Canada)2. Registers of Power in Integration Processes: The Relationship between Family Farmers and Agrobusiness in the Ecuadorian Corn Sector Tamara Artacker (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria)3. Economic Liberalisation and the ‘Business’ of Agriculture in India. Surajit Mazumdar4. Contract Farming in South America: The Evolution of Agro-industries in Argentina and Brazil Paris Yeros (Federal University of ABC, Brazil), Agostina Costantino (Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas y Sociales del Sur, Argentina), and Thiago Lima (Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil)5. A Chain of Inequalities: Pillars of the Global Governance of Coffee Production Luiza Dulci (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Workers Party of Brazil, Belo Horizonte City Council)Part II. Agribusiness, Ecological Plunder, and Food Insecurity6.Agritech and Development: Low Roads and High Roads. Eskil Enassen, Hans Schaler, Aaron Schneider7. The “Nitrogen-Trap” and Modern Imperialism in Agribusiness. Ankit Singh, Puja Rani and Avinash Kumar8. The Coloniality of South Africa’s Food System and the Contemporary Food Crisis Brittany Kesselman (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)9. Agribusiness, Self-Exploitation and Ecological Plunder in Zimbabwe Freedom Mazwi (University of Zambia, Zambia)10. Indian Agribusiness in Africa: (Ir)responsible Governance of Tenure Praveen Jha and Santosh Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)Part III. Southern Resistance ad Alternatives11. Agribusiness, Changing Class Dynamics, and Peasant Protests. Archana Prasad and Praveen Jha12. Labour tenants’ struggles for farmland against Capitalist Farming in South Africa. Mnqobi Ngubane13. Agribusiness and Agrarian Movements in a Hill State: The Case of Adani Agrifresh in Himachal Pradesh. Shubhojeet Dey14. Agribusiness, agrarian reform and livelihoods in South Africa: opportunities, pitfalls and impacts. Clemence Rusenga15. Cooperation in Production as an Alternative for the Global South: A Case Study of Kudumbashree Farm Collectives of Kerala, India. Dev Krishnan Anil