‘Like gold with yield’: evolving intersections between farmland and finance

By Madeleine Fairbairn. 2014

362 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Finance, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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In Finance

1. J. Clapp
2. Alberto Alonso-Fradejas
3. J. Franco
4. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
5. G. Oliveira
6. Sarah J. Martin
7. S. Hecht
8. Les Levidow

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Les Levidow
2. Alberto Alonso-Fradejas
3. J. Franco
4. J. Clapp
5. G. Oliveira
6. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
7. S. Isakson
8. S. Hecht

In Sociology and Political Science

1. J. Clapp
2. Alberto Alonso-Fradejas
3. G. Oliveira
4. Sarah J. Martin
5. S. Hecht
6. J. Franco
7. Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
8. Les Levidow

Citations in the corpus

• Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains (2014, background): “5As described in Fairbairn (2014) and below, REITs are one mechanism through which farmland is financialized. scale agricultural producers.”
• Anything but a story foretold: multiple politics of resistance to the agrarian extractivist project in Guatemala (2015, background): “…capitals exerting an increasing control throughout the flex commodity value chain(s), from production to transformation, fractionation for multiple uses, industrialization, shipping and retailing (see Goodman, Sorj, and Wilkinson 1987; Solano 2009; Fairbairn 2014; Isakson 2014, among others).”
• Finance for agriculture or agriculture for finance (2015, background): “In particular, the growing role of private financial actors in supermarkets, land investment, commodity and value chains and the food system more generally have received increased attention (Burch and Lawrence 2009; Isakson 2014; Fairbairn 2014).”
• Sacred groves, sacrifice zones and soy production: globalization, intensification and neo-nature in South America (2016, background): “This is part of a broader process of global financial deregulation and financialization of farmland markets and agricultural production that has become the subject of an important new field of research (Murphy, Burch, and Clapp 2012; Fairbairn et al. 2014; Fairbairn 2014; Isakson 2014).”
• The Politics of Sustainability and Development (2016, neutral): “This in turn is facilitated by the financialization and commodification of resources in markets, with new financial instruments being used as different resources gain value (55, 56).”
• Land concentration and land grabbing in Europe: a preliminary analysis (2015, background): “Financialisation of land, agriculture and the food system (Clapp 2014; Fairbairn 2014; Isakson 2014) has accompanied the global land rush.”
• The rise of flex crops and commodities: implications for research (2016, background): “2010), including finance capital such as investment banks, hedge funds and so on (Clapp 2014; Fairbairn 2014; Isakson 2014).”