The Politics of Hunger

By P. Collier. 2008

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Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth (2010, background): “This view is echoed by a number of influential figures in the development policy arena, such as Paul Collier (2008), who dismisses visions of smallholder agricultural development as a form of “romantic populism,” part of the “middle- and upper-class love affair with peasant agriculture” (Collier 200”
The Long Green Revolution (2013, unknown): “It comes instead from Oxford’s Collier (2008).”
Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “…donors on the one hand, and, on the other, among radical critics – has been the inevitability of an agribusiness future centred on large farms, albeit with outgrower schemes absorbing (some of) the current rural populations (Sender and Johnston 2004, Collier 2008, Oya 2009, B. White et al. 2012).”
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “Advocacy of a large farm model for agricultural growth, linked to assumed comparative advantages in a globalised economy, is often at the centre of justifications for large-scale corporate land deals (Collier 2008).”
Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and the New Green Revolution (2012, background): “The global food crisis of 2008 returned in 2010 with devastating impacts on the world’s poor—most of whom are peasant farmers (Collier 2008; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [FAO] 2011).”
How not to think of land-grabbing: three critiques of large-scale investments in farmland (2011, background): “…for those who do not believe that small-scale farming has a future and that, as one commentator put it, all countries should focus on developing large agro-industrial estates following the model of the Brazilian farm (for a characteristic and influential exposition of that view, see Collier 2008).”
Microfinance and the Illusion of Development: From Hubris to Nemesis in Thirty Years (2012, background): “Nor are the sort of large-scale plantation-style farms advocated by commentators such as Collier (2008) any better for the local community, not least since they employ few people on decent wages, may destroy the local ecology, and the often large profits go up to a tiny elite (which is often not…”
‘Land grab’ as development strategy? The political economy of agricultural investment in Ethiopia (2012, background): “‘Receiving’ country governments tend to follow proponents of large-scale investment in agriculture by claiming that investment can play important developmental roles, including: addressing the food crisis (Collier 2008); creating employment (Deininger and Byerlee 2010); and earning foreign exchange.”
Structural transformation or elite land capture? The growth of “emergent” farmers in Zambia (2014, background): “What do these findings tell us about the prospects of engaging small-scale farmers in a process of agricultural transformation? Do these findings support the conclusion that insurmountable barriers within the smallholder sector preclude these farmers from meaningfully increasing production, expandin”
Urban food insecurity and the new international food security agenda (2011, background): “Criticism of the new global food security agenda is starting to grow (Ellis & Harris, 2004; NAI, 2007; Collier, 2008; Holt-Giménez, 2008; Patel et al., 2009).”
Rising Food Prices, Food Price Volatility, and Social Unrest (2015, unknown): “cause Haitian prime minister Jacques-Édouard Alexis to resign (Collier 2008).”