Farming as financial asset : global finance and the making of institutional landscapes / Stefan Ouma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ouma, Stefan, author.

Series:

Economic transformations (Newcastle upon Tyne, England)

Economic Transformations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Agriculture.

Finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing , 2020.

Summary:

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, globe spanning 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 for which kind of food future?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781788213202

1788213203

9781788211888

178821188X