The Accelerating Biophysical Contradictions of Industrial Capitalist Agriculture

By T. Weis. 2010

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, Water Science and Technology

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Smallholder Irrigation Schemes, Agrarian Reform and ‘Accumulation from Above and from Below’ in South Africa (2013, background): “…agriculture have not eliminated hunger, high levels of waste coexist with the under- or malnutrition of hundreds of millions of people, including in the rural areas of the global South, and the ecological contradictions of capitalist agriculture have emerged ever more clearly (Weis 2010).”
The meat of the global food crisis (2013, background): “These competitive pressures were rooted not only in industrialized economies of scale and extensive state subsidy regimes, but in an assortment of externalized costs that might be understood as implicit subsidies (Weis 2010a).”
The Long Green Revolution (2013, background): “…of global seed supply has become increasingly concentrated, such that the top four companies control more than half the global proprietary seed supply (for more on concentration in industrial agriculture see, inter alia, ETC Group 2008, Bernstein 2010b, Moore 2010, Weis 2010, Wield et al. 2010).”
New investment, old challenges. Land deals and the water constraint in African agriculture (2012, background): “…is nested within a broader narrative of an impending crisis in modern agriculture, which draws on well-documented negative impacts of input-intensive commercial agriculture on biodiversity and water quality as evidence for underlying unsustainability and imminent crisis (Weis 2010, Moore 2010).”
Sacred groves, sacrifice zones and soy production: globalization, intensification and neo-nature in South America (2016, background): “…are extremely inefficient forms of producing protein for human food, and soy-based biodiesel is only carbon efficient when produced in small-scale diversified farming systems (Cavalett and Ortega 2010; Oliveira and Schneider 2015; Schneider 2014; Steinfeld et al. 2006; Weis 2010, 2013a, 2013b).”
Agricultural labour productivity, food prices and sustainable development impacts and indicators (2013, background): “…global food and agricultural systems and the prospects of poor agrarian economies: they are fundamental to aspirations about standards and modes of living in developed economies too, and about structures of society and economic activity (for example Lang, 2010; Van Der Ploeg, 2010; Weis, 2010).”
Agrarian political economy and modern world capitalism: the contributions of food regime analysis (2016, background): “The more comprehensive industrialisation of agriculture emerged more strongly in the second food regime, and is a central focus of political ecology today (see the excellent analysis by Weis 2010), on which more below.”
Introduction: critical perspectives on food sovereignty (2014, background): “…iniquitous dynamic: low-income countries are especially threatened by conditions they have done little to cause and could become still more dependent upon the food imports from the industrialized world that are part of its extremely disproportionate contribution to climate change (Weis 2010).”
Resilience and the industrial food system: analyzing the impacts of agricultural industrialization on food system vulnerability (2015, background): “…side, varieties are now selected for their conformity to mechanization, their shelf life, and their ability to survive long shipping processes, rather than on taste, health (both human health and health of the agricultural product itself), or ecological quality (Bonanno et al. 1994; Weis 2010).”
Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “White et al. (2012) point to the need to discuss labour processes and accumulation from a critical political economy approach.”
Finance for agriculture or agriculture for finance (2015, background): “More strictly regulated financial markets on their own are not necessarily sufficient for sustainability in the agricultural sector, as the ecological effects of agricultural industrialisation in the 20th century have shown (Weis 2010).”