Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change

By H. Bernstein. 2010

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Land Transfer and the Pursuit of Agricultural Modernization in China (2015, background): “According to Henry Bernstein (2010), the primitive accumulation in the commune period, though labelled as ‘socialist’, was typically ‘non-market’ and ‘extra-economically coercive’, whereas in the HRS period, it has been characterized by the market-derived compulsion of economic forces.”
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, methodology): “17Summarised in Bernstein 2010, Ch. 7. required, informed by the kind of agrarian political economy perspectives, and associated typologies, which we have outlined above.”
Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean (2012, unknown): “capitalists) in the land grab process, and their embeddedness in a situation where there is a nationalist sentiment against land grabbing (that is often understood in terms of foreignization or denationalization of land – see Zoomers 2010) makes a class analytical lens even more relevant in terms of”
Land grabbing, social differentiation, intensified migration and food security in northern Ghana (2017, background): “…the daily struggle for a livelihood, a landless farmer summarized several respondents’ sentiments by saying: ‘we’re farmers but aren’t farming’, echoing Henry Bernstein’s point that many ‘rural people may not qualify as ‘farmers’ in any strong sense… because they lack land’ (Bernstein 2010, 3).”
Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change (2017, background): “This in turn is associated with a wider process of change in agrarian societies, as smallholder agriculture comes under pressure, generating a class of ‘footloose’, fragmented labour seeking their livelihoods through fragile piecework, combined with small-scale, subsistence agriculture (Bernstein 20”
Centering labor in the land grab debate (2011, background): “…with which they are 3Smallholder farming has its own problems, not least the new inequalities that arise through the ‘everyday’ processes of accumulation and dispossession among smallholders that roll on relentlessly, despite efforts to prevent them (Hall et al. 2011; Li 2010a; Bernstein 2010).”
Patterns of agrarian transformation in Ethiopia: State-mediated commercialisation and the ‘land grab’ (2012, result): “…dualism in agricultural production has potentially important consequences for Ethiopia’s political 8This conclusion is supported by past research which suggests that wealthier farmers have been better placed to take advantage of green revolution technologies (Harriss 1987, Bernstein 2010). economy.”
Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land (2013, background): “Finally, our perspective on the state and land deals is shaped by political economy work in the field of critical agrarian studies (Bernstein, 2010; Borras, 2009; White et al., 2012).”
The rise of flex crops and commodities: implications for research (2016, background): “The political economy of flex crops and commodities is necessarily recast in several ways, eight of which are: (1) changed multiple sites and levels and increasingly long-distance interconnectedness; (2) new owners of capital and technology; (3) continuity and change in the organization of productio”
The end of the road?: agricultural revolutions in the capitalist World-ecology, 1450-2010 (2010, background): “…of agriculture by capital, such that agroecological production has become increasingly dependent on the circuit of capital; and the role of peasantries and agrarian classes of labour in the struggle for democracy and socialism (Kautsky 1988; Byres 1996; Moore 2008, 2009; Bernstein 2010).”
Plantations, Contract Farming and Commercial Farming Areas in Africa: A Comparative Review (2013, background): “Although Marxist scholars stress variation within the peasantry and painstakingly describe fine differences between class categories such as ‘capitalist farmer’ and ‘petty commodity producer’, who both sell their produce, it is generally argued that the archetypal self-sufficient subsistence peasant”
Agricultural intensification, dietary diversity, and markets in the global food security narrative (2019, background): “…often leads to the consolidation of small farms leading to the generation of a class of landless, agricultural labourers in place of small- and medium-sized, family farm enterprises (Bernstein, 2010) and a ‘corporate food regime’ dominated by trans-national agro-food corporations (McMichael, 2005).”
Agrarian political economy and modern world capitalism: the contributions of food regime analysis (2016, background): “Further assessment of this ‘peasant turn’ will be compressed as it has been covered elsewhere (Bernstein 2010, 2014).”
Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing: an editorial introduction (2011, methodology): “Working within the broad analytical lenses of these three fields, we are guided by four key questions in agrarian political economy outlined by Henry Bernstein (2010): (i) who owns what (ii) who does what (iii) who gets what and (iv) what do they do with the surplus wealth that has been created?”
Agriculture and the Generation Problem: Rural Youth, Employment and the Future of Farming (2012, background): “Agrarian structures based on smallscale (‘peasant’) farming are inherently unstable under conditions of commodity economy, due to the in-built mechanisms of land concentration and agrarian differentiation, which many authors from Lenin onwards have described (Bernstein 2010).”
The Long Green Revolution (2013, background): “As Harris (1988) and Bernstein (2010a) argue, however, scale neutral doesn’t mean ‘resource neutral’: India’s Green Revolution provides a clue to this aspect of differentiation.”