Farming as Financial Asset
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Farming as Financial Asset

Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes

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eBook - ePub

Farming as Financial Asset

Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes

About this book

Since the global financial crisis, the world has seen a stark rise in financial investment in farming and agricultural production. Indeed, finance has been identified as one of the main causes of the so-called "global land rush". In a world with a growing population that needs to be fed, the financial returns from agriculture are sold as safe bets. The debate that this has prompted has been frequently alarmist, with financiers blamed for rising land prices, corporate enclosures, the dispossession of smallholder farmers and the expansion of large-scale industrial agriculture.

Stefan Ouma speaks to these concerns via an ethnographic journey through the agrifocused asset management industry. His penetrating analysis of case studies taken from New Zealand and Tanzania allows him to put global finance "in place", bringing into view the flesh-and-blood institutions, globespanning social relations, everyday practices and place-based value struggles that are often absent in broad-brushed narratives on the "financialization of agriculture". The book closes with a key question for the Anthropocene: which form of finance forwhich kind of food future?

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Information

Publisher
Agenda Publishing
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781788211871
eBook ISBN
9781788213202
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Agribusiness
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Illustrations
  10. Chapter 1 Introduction:
  11. Chapter 2 Optic: How do we study the financeā€“farming nexus?
  12. Chapter 3 History: How old is the financeā€“farming nexus?
  13. Chapter 4 Numbers: What we know (and do not know) about finance-gone-farming
  14. Chapter 5 States: How are foreign investments in farming regulated and accounted for?
  15. Chapter 6 Value(s): Why has the road to ā€œgreener pasturesā€ been so bumpy?
  16. Chapter 7 Delegation: What happens inside the agri-investment chain?
  17. Chapter 8 Grounding: What does assetization look like from below?
  18. Chapter 9 Radices: Food futures, with or without finance as we know it?
  19. Epilogue:
  20. References
  21. Index