The Financialization of Agri-Food Systems

Contested Transformations
Herausgeber: Bjorkhaug, Hilde; Lawrence, Geoffrey; Magnan, André

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Produktbeschreibung

Financialization is one of the key drivers transforming food systems and rural economies globally. This book explores the connection between financialization, food systems, and rural transformation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781138068513
• ISBN-10: 1138068519
• Artikelnr.: 53958602

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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