New Directions In Agrarian Political Economy

Author : Ryan Isakson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317424819

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New Directions in Agrarian Political Economy by Ryan Isakson Pdf

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context? This volume explores this question by focusing upon the defining features of agrarian transformation in the 21st century: the financialization of food and agriculture, the blurring of rural and urban livelihoods through migration and other economic activities, forest transition, climate change, rural indebtedness, the co-evolution of social policy and moral economies, and changing property relations. Combined, the eleven contributions to this collection provide a broad overview of agrarian studies over the past four decades and identify the contemporary frontiers of agrarian political economy. In this path-breaking collection, the authors show how new iterations of long evident processes continue to catch peasants and smallholders in the crosshairs of crises and how many manage to face these challenges, developing new sources and sites of livelihood production. This volume was published as part one of the special double issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : David Seddon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:18209773

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Paradigms, Peasants and Populism by David Seddon Pdf

Author : A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi,Cristóbal Kay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134064649

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Peasants and Globalization by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi,Cristóbal Kay Pdf

In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world’s population lived in cities. However, on a global scale, poverty overwhelmingly retains a rural face. This book assembles an unparalleled group of internationally-eminent scholars in the field of rural development and social change in order to explore historical and contemporary processes of agrarian change and transformation and their consequent impact upon the livelihoods, poverty and well-being of those who live in the countryside. The book provides a critical analysis of the extent to which rural development trajectories have in the past and are now promoting a change in rural production processes, the accumulation of rural resources, and shifts in rural politics, and the implications of such trajectories for peasant livelihoods and rural workers in an era of globalization. Peasants and Globalization thus explores continuity and change in the debate on the ‘agrarian question’, from its early formulation in the late 19th century to the continuing relevance it has in our times, including chapters from Terence Byres, Amiya Bagchi, Ellen Wood, Farshad Araghi, Henry Bernstein, Saturnino M Borras, Ray Kiely, Michael Watts and Philip McMichael. Collectively, the contributors argue that neoliberal social and economic policies have, in deepening the market imperative governing the contemporary world food system, not only failed to tackle to underlying causes of rural poverty but have indeed deepened the agrarian crisis currently confronting the livelihoods of peasant farmers and rural workers. This crisis does not go unchallenged, as rural social movements have emerged, for the first time, on a transnational scale. Confronting development policies that are unable to reduce, let alone eliminate, rural poverty, transnational rural social movements are attempting to construct a more just future for the world’s farmers and rural workers.

Author : Ryan Isakson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317424826

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New Directions in Agrarian Political Economy by Ryan Isakson Pdf

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context? This volume explores this question by focusing upon the defining features of agrarian transformation in the 21st century: the financialization of food and agriculture, the blurring of rural and urban livelihoods through migration and other economic activities, forest transition, climate change, rural indebtedness, the co-evolution of social policy and moral economies, and changing property relations. Combined, the eleven contributions to this collection provide a broad overview of agrarian studies over the past four decades and identify the contemporary frontiers of agrarian political economy. In this path-breaking collection, the authors show how new iterations of long evident processes continue to catch peasants and smallholders in the crosshairs of crises and how many manage to face these challenges, developing new sources and sites of livelihood production. This volume was published as part one of the special double issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Henry Bernstein
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781565493568

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Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change by Henry Bernstein Pdf

Henry Bernstein argues that class dynamics should be the starting point of any analysis of agrarian change. Providing an accessible introduction to agrarian political economy, he shows clearly how the argument for "bringing class back in" provides an alternative to inherited conceptions of the agrarian question. He also ably illustrates what is at stake in different ways of thinking about class dynamics and the effects of agrarian change in today's globalized world. CONTENTS: Introduction: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change. Production and Productivity. Origins of Early Development of Capitalism. Colonialism and Capitalism. Farming and Agriculture, Local and Global. Neoliberal Globalization and World Agriculture. Capitalist Agriculture and Non-Capitalist Farmers? Class Formation in the Countryside. Complexities of Class.

Author : M Barbara Leons,Frances Rothstein
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015002574617

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New Directions in Political Economy by M Barbara Leons,Frances Rothstein Pdf

Author : Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira,Juan Liu,Ben M. McKay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000478440

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Beyond the Global Land Grab by Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira,Juan Liu,Ben M. McKay Pdf

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.

Author : Terence J. Byres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 072860244X

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Political Economy by Terence J. Byres Pdf

The agrarian question is central to the economic analysis of poor countries. In this inaugural lecture the author has chosen political economy as an approriate method for the analysis of the problems of economic development in the world, with particular emphasis on India.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1135682493

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The Political Economy of Agrarian Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Keith Griffin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035990741

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The Political Economy of Agrarian Change by Keith Griffin Pdf

Economic aspects of technical change in the rural areas of Asia and Latin American; The disposal of production; Political objectives and policy instruments; ; Agrarian policy: the political and economic context; Policy options.

Author : M S S Pandian
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015022038809

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The Political Economy of Agrarian Change by M S S Pandian Pdf

The Political Economy of Agrarian Change is a major study which seeks to overcome the methodological inadequacies of the mode of production debate. Following the established line of enquiry in the Marxian political economy framework Pandian analyses the forces which bring about a qualitative change in the agrarian structure. It will be of great interest to policy makers and all those interested in the development and present state of Indian agriculture.

Author : Rural Sociological Society. 50th Anniversary Meeting,William H Friedland
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015019838591

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Towards A New Political Economy Of Agriculture by Rural Sociological Society. 50th Anniversary Meeting,William H Friedland Pdf

Originating as a miniconference at the August 1988 meeting of the Rural Sociological Society in Madison, Wisconsin, 16 papers offer ideas on how agriculture can and must be reconceived in the context of global economics and food production. Among the considerations are labor, government, technology, and gender. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : F. Tomasson Jannuzi
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003470924

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India's Persistent Dilemma by F. Tomasson Jannuzi Pdf

This study shows that the failure of successive Indian governments to effect meaningful agrarian reforms has led to a political economy in rural India that is shaped, as it was prior to independence, largely by the interests of an elite minority of landholders.

Author : Johan F.M. Swinnen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783484850

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The Political Economy of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy by Johan F.M. Swinnen Pdf

After five years of debates, consultations and negotiations, the European institutions reached an agreement in 2013 on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014-2020 period. The outcome has major implications for the EU’s budget and farmers’ incomes, but also for Europe’s environment, its contribution to global climate change and to food security in the EU and in the world. It was decided to spend more than €400 billion during the rest of the decade on the CAP. The official claims are that the new CAP will take better account of society's expectations and lead to far-reaching changes by making subsidies fairer and ‘greener’ and making the CAP more efficient. It is also asserted that the CAP will play a key part in achieving the overall objective of promoting smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. However, there is significant scepticism about these claims and disappointment with the outcome of the decision-making, the first in which the European Parliament was involved under the co-decision procedure. In contrast to earlier reforms where more substantive changes were made to the CAP, the factors that induced the policy discussions in 2008-13 and those that influenced the decision-making did not reinforce each other. On the contrary, they sometimes counteracted one another, yielding an ‘imperfect storm’ as it were, resulting in more status quo and fewer changes. This book discusses the outcome of the decision-making and the factors that influenced the policy choices and decisions. It brings together contributions from leading academics from various disciplines and policy-makers, and key participants in the process from the European Commission and the European Parliament.

Author : Kirk Helliker,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe,Sandra Bhatasara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351273220

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The Political Economy of Livelihoods in Contemporary Zimbabwe by Kirk Helliker,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe,Sandra Bhatasara Pdf

Since the introduction of the fast track land reform programme in 2000, Zimbabwe has undergone major economic and political shifts and these have had a profound impact on both urban and rural livelihoods. This book provides rich empirical studies that examine a range of multi-faceted and contested livelihoods within the context of systemic crises. Taking a broad political economy approach, the chapters advance a grounded and in-depth understanding of emerging and shifting livelihood processes, strategies and resilience that foregrounds agency at household level. Highlighting an emergent scholarship amongst young black scholars in Zimbabwe, and providing an understanding of how people and communities respond to socio-economic challenges, this book is an important read for scholars of African political economy, southern African studies and livelihoods.