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'Capitalism a Nuh' Wi Frien'

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Ondertitel:the formatting of farming into an asset, from financial speculation to international aid
This paper deciphers the formatting of farming into an asset by tracking the modalities by which financial calculation is enabled across different sites of agency. The first focus of our analysis is commodity futures markets, which have witnessed spikes in prices in 2008 and in 2012. In the paper, we look at these hikes as the outcome of endogenous dynamics, caused by the changing makeup of market participants after 2000, which turned futures markets into resources for hedging commodity index-linked derivative products. We subsequently analyse the increasing reliance on financial actors placed by public development agencies that channel funds through private equity initiatives to acquire and invest in farmland. To complete our analysis, we set our contribution alongside the alternative represented by food-sovereignty, which offers the promise of heeding to the needs engendered within the peasant milieu, as opposed to subjugating it to extrinsic quantitative metrics.
Tijdschrift: Catalyst
ISSN: 2160-1844
Volume: 6
Pagina's: 1 - 21
Jaar van publicatie:2015
Trefwoorden:A3 Journal article
Toegankelijkheid:Closed