The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism

Lessons from Bolivia

von Ben M Mckay

174 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Around the world, plantation economies are on the rise. Increasing concerns over food, energy and financial security, combined with a geopolitical restructuring of the global agrofood system, have resulted in a rush to secure control over resources. New actors and forms of capital penetration have entered the countryside, transforming the forms and relations of production, property and power. Soybeans, with industrial inputs upstream and storage, processing and transportation downstream, have become a quintessential agro-industrial "flex crop," used as feed, food, fuel and industrial materials, but the very extractive character of the soy complex has severe implications for society, the economy and the environment.

• Reihe: Practical Action Publishing
• ISBN: 9781788531382
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.07.2020
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Practical Action Publishing