(Re)imagining Agrarian Relations? The World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development

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Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited: Challenges for Late Developing Countries in a Globalizing World (2012, methodology): “For criticism of the WDR08 framework, see, among others, Akram-Lodhi (2008) and Oya (2009).”
Contextualising land grabbing: contemporary land deals, the global subsistence crisis and the world food system (2012, background): “Rather, the core economic rationale to support smallholder farming has been the perceived inverse relationship between size of farm and productivity per unit of land (Akram-Lodhi 2008), which has often been argued to result in cheaper food when it is produced by peasants.”
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals (2012, background): “…juggled ‘politically correct messages about the need to support small farmers’ with policy and financial support for agribusiness (Oya 2009, 595, cf. Akram-Lodhi 2008) can hardly oppose large-scale corporate investment in farmland when it is itself an important promoter and facilitator of these…”
‘Land grab’ as development strategy? The political economy of agricultural investment in Ethiopia (2012, background): “This mainstream highlights the importance of integrating producers into global markets through export-oriented agricultural production, enabling them to exploit their comparative advantage (Akram-Lodhi 2008, World Bank 2008, Chang 2009, Bernstein 2010).”