The chapter develops in three parts. It firstly provides a review of the evolution of dominant developmental approaches to food and agriculture and discusses the main concepts, elaborated at both academic and militant levels, which inform the critical debate on agrarian development and its political ecology. It then focuses on the current phase of agrarian development policies and highlights some of the main contentious issues arising from it. It deals in particular with the reorganisation dynamics of global capitalism after the 2008 crises, the role of arable land, bio-regeneration processes and the economics of data in agriculture. Reflecting on political ecology, labour transformations and struggles engendered by these processes, the last section suggests the interest for future research in shifting the critical gaze from a production-based understanding of agro-capitalism to one more attentive to transformation in the field of socio-ecological reproduction.
Agrarian development and food security: ecology, labour and crises
Maura Benegiamo
2022-01-01
Abstract
The chapter develops in three parts. It firstly provides a review of the evolution of dominant developmental approaches to food and agriculture and discusses the main concepts, elaborated at both academic and militant levels, which inform the critical debate on agrarian development and its political ecology. It then focuses on the current phase of agrarian development policies and highlights some of the main contentious issues arising from it. It deals in particular with the reorganisation dynamics of global capitalism after the 2008 crises, the role of arable land, bio-regeneration processes and the economics of data in agriculture. Reflecting on political ecology, labour transformations and struggles engendered by these processes, the last section suggests the interest for future research in shifting the critical gaze from a production-based understanding of agro-capitalism to one more attentive to transformation in the field of socio-ecological reproduction.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
