The Second Edition of this book is completely revised and updated throughout providing an overview of current challenges faced within the area of Agri-food in relation to policymaking, ecological conservation and socio-environmental justice. Including a range of new chapters, the book explores some of the conceptual and analytical gaps that are presented by current approaches to this topic. The series of interconnected chapters offers a critical reinterpretation of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory regimes, land and resource grabbing, and the impacts of global agri-food chains at local, regional and inter-sectoral scales. The book also examines past legacies and emerging challenges associated with agriculture modernisation, politico-spatial disputes, climate change, social movements, gender, ethnicity and education. It likewise addresses the transformative potential of different combinations of biophysical, socio-technical and socio-spatial practices of food sovereignty.
Author(s): Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris, Bernardo Mançano Fernandes
Edition: 2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 473
City: Cham
Contents
Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Agriculture, Environment and Development: International Perspectives and a Critical Agenda of Investigation
References
2 Prolegomenon: Money and Territory
Territory and Money: Some Definitions
Metamorphoses of Money and Territory
From the Reason of Use to the Reason of Exchange
Money and the Territory of Globalisation
The Role of Ideology
Dictatorship of Money and Deregulation of the National Territory
3 Disruptive Governance in the UK Food System and the Case of Wales
How Brexit Disrupts the British Agri-Food System
The Characteristics of the New Disruptive Governance
Agri-Food as a Key Location for Disruptive Governance
Wales: A Case Study of Imposed Disruptive Food Governance?
London First Abandons Then Reclaims Leadership: But Will It Work?
The Disruptive Governance Paradox: Whose Version of Control and Regulation?
The New Containment and New Dynamics of Devolution
Conclusions: Embedding or Tackling Disunity (A Postscript from 2022 and Beyond)
References
4 Back to the Past: Authoritarian Populism, Disruptive Governance and Policy Dismantling in Rural Brazil
Introduction
Brief Context of Rural Brazil
Populism and Disruptive Governance
Policy Dismantling
Case One: Food Acquisition Programme (PAA)—Expansion, Dismantling and Ending
Case Two: Abandoning the Agenda of Sustainable Territorial Development and Embracing Predatory Extractivism
Conclusions
References
5 Contested Landscapes: Territorial Conflicts and the Production of Different Ruralities in Brazil
Introduction
About Mirante Do Paranapanema and Ribeirão Preto
On Contested Landscapes
Mirante Do Paranapanema, Encampments, and Settlements
Fazenda Da Barra, Ribeirão Preto
Conclusion
References
6 Land Inequality in Brazil: Conflicts and Violence in the Countryside
Introduction
The Brazilian Agrarian Reform
Rural Population vs. Urban Population in Latin America and Land Inequality
Food Production, Land Grabbing and Violence Resulting from Land Disputes
Conclusions and Lessons Learned
References
7 The Agrarian Question and the Rural Development Paths in the Periphery of Argentina: Past and Present in the Territorialisation of Peasantry in Santiago Del Estero
Introduction
The Agrarian Issue in Argentina and Its Several Periods
The Agrarian Question and Its Heterogeneities
The Agrarian Question and the Narratives of Rural Development
Three Contributions of a Situated Approach to the Agrarian Question
References
8 The Empty Food Bowl: Discourse Disconnection of Australian Agriculture
Introduction
Pandemic Foodways and the View from Australia
The Myth of the Food Bowl
The Case for a New Paradigm
An Emerging Research Agenda
Conclusion
References
9 Say Agribusiness but Mean Genocide: Grabbing the Guarani-Kaiowa World
The Genocidal Trail of Agribusiness
The Geocide-Genocide-Massacre Nexus
Kaiowcide: Consolidating the Power of Agribusiness
Living to Overcome Kaiowcide
References
10 Land and Food Access in the Context of Climate Change: Implications to Rural Development in Mozambique
Introduction
Climate, Land Use, Farming System Change and Food Security
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Policies in Mozambique
Implications of Climate Change Policies to Rural Subsistence and Land Use
Socio-Economic Implications to Rural Livelihoods
Land Use in the Context of Green Policies: Towards Climate Smart Land Use and Rural Development
Climate Smart Land Use and Options for Sustainable Farming Systems and Rural Development
References
11 Accumulation by Land Rent and Territorial Disputes in a Brazilian Agricultural Frontier
Introduction
Land Grabbing: Land Appropriation and Ensuing Crises
Agricultural Enterprises and Typology of Financial Capital in the Brazilian Agricultural Frontiers
Information Technologies and Ground Rent
Natural Differential Land Rent
Produced Differential Land Rent
Absolute Rent of Land
Impacts and Territorial Confliction
Conclusions
References
12 Dispossession and Agricultural Commodities: The Case of Oil Palm Farming in the Brazilian Amazon
Dispossession Nowadays: A Brief Introduction
Agricultural commodity and flex crops: Oil Palm in the Brazilian Amazon
Dispossession and Conflicts in the Amazon Related to Oil Palm Farming
Lessons Learned
References
13 Three Pillars of the Global Governance of Coffee Production
Introduction
Transitioning from Public to Private Regulation
The Consolidation Strategy
Consolidation in the Brazilian Market
Finance and the Expansion of the Agriculture’s Frontier
Conclusions
References
14 (De)institutionalising Agroecology: A Historical-Relational-Interactive Perspective on the Evolution of Brazil’s Agri-Environmental State
Introduction
Conceptual Framework
An Historical-Relational-Interactive Perspective on the Agri-Environmental State in Brazil
Coffee with Milk: Colonização, Coronelismo, and Clientelismo (1500–1960)
“Anos de Chumbo”: The Takeover of the Military Dictatorship (1961–1985)
From Re-democratisation to the Rise of a Popular Government (1985–2002)
The “Golden Decade”: Toward an Established Agri-Environmental State? (2002–2010)
The Agri-Environmental State “Under Pressure”: Underestimating Contradictions
Conclusions
References
15 Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Critical Food Systems Education
Critical Food Systems Education: Integrative Theory, Pedagogy, and Policy Vision
Popular Education and Critical Pedagogy: Merging Theory and Pedagogical Practice
Food Justice: The Pedagogies and Policies of CFSE
Agroecology: Bringing Politics to the Front
Food Sovereignty: Pedagogies in Movement
Integrating Decolonial and Critical Feminist Perspectives into CFSE
Decolonisation and Food Systems
CFSE and Intersectional and Transnational Feminisms
Conclusion: Educating for Food Sovereignty
References
16 Territorial Resistance and Peasant Food Systems in Brazil
Introduction
Territory, Territorialities, and Territorial Resistance
Territorialisation of MST in the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre: Autonomy in the Production of Agroecological Foods
Peasant Food Systems: Advances, Possibilities, and Challenges for the MST
Conclusion
References
17 The Difficult but Not Impossible Defeating of Right-Wing Populism and the Exploration of a Socialist Future
Introduction
What Is Populism?
Important Debates on Agrarian Populism
Populism, Class Politics, and Crisis
Fundamental Differences Between Right-Wing Populism and Progressive Agrarian Populism Today
What Is to Be Done? Ask Big and Act Insurgent, with a Socialist Perspective
Concluding Discussion: Towards a Class-Conscious Left-Wing Populism
References
Index
