The land grab and corporate food regime restructuring

By P. McMichael. 2012

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Global land governance: from territory to flow? (2013, background): “The land acquisitions have been enabled by the development of a market-driven international agricultural trade under the World Trade Organization (WTO), national policies on food, agriculture and trade among governments in the Global North and South, and the emergence of global commercial land marke”
The politics of flexing soybeans: China, Brazil and global agroindustrial restructuring (2016, background): “…narrow ties between US state interests and regulatory mechanisms that structured the post-war international food and agricultural regime, but further concentrated the power and profits in the hands of these North Atlantic-based transnational agribusiness corporations (McMichael 2012; Turzi 2011).”
Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains (2014, background): “McMichael (2012), for instance, attributes growing interest in land to capitalism’s inherent tendency towards crisis.”
The geographic and sectoral patterns of large-scale farmland investments in sub-Saharan Africa (2014, background): “The confluence of the commodity crises of the mid 2000s exposed structural long-term global food and energy security issues (Deininger, 2011; McMichael, 2012).”
‘Like gold with yield’: evolving intersections between farmland and finance (2014, background): “McMichael (2012) provides a useful theoretical framework by situating land grabbing in the context of global food regime restructuring (see also Burch and Lawrence 2009).”
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “Large-scale land deals, while sensational, are only the most recent and visible manifestation of a growing agrarian crisis around the world, reflected in heightened levels of food insecurity, poverty, landlessness and environmental degradation (Patnaik 2010 , Weis 2010 , Holt-Gimenez and Shattuck ”
Sacred groves, sacrifice zones and soy production: globalization, intensification and neo-nature in South America (2016, background): “While the technological homogeneity and corporate concentration of the sector has been characterized as an iconic mark of a global ‘corporate food regime’ distanced and disarticulated from local political, social and environmental realities (Turzi 2011; McMichael 2012; Clapp 2014), it is important t”
Land grabbing, social differentiation, intensified migration and food security in northern Ghana (2017, background): “Philip McMichael has argued that the current land grabs are symptomatic of food regime restructuring, where financial capital is now being invested in cheap land to raise global food deficits (McMichael 2012).”
Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)appropriation of Finite Water Resources (2012, background): “…crises: food, energy/fuel, climate change, financial crisis (where finance capital started to look for new and safer investment opportunities) (McMichael, 2012), as well as the emerging needs for resources by newer hubs of global capital, especially BRICS and some powerful middle income…”
Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean (2012, unknown): “What is distinct in the current land grabs is that these occur primarily because, and within the dynamics, of capital accumulation strategies largely in response to the convergence of multiple crises: food, energy/fuel, climate change, financial crisis (where finance capital started to look for new ”
Middle-range theories of land system change (2018, background): “…2010); transnational land acquisition (or “land grabbing”) and land speculation, and associated land-use displacement and conflicts (Zoomers, 2010, McMichael, 2012); and new forms of private and hybrid land governance where supply chain actors and consumers promote the adoption of voluntary…”