Speculative harvests: financialization, food, and agriculture

"In Speculative Harvests, Clapp and Isakson investigate the evolving relationship between the agrifood and financial sectors, paying particular attention to how the contemporary process of financialization is reshaping agrarian development and food systems. Understood as the growing prevalence...

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Hauptverfasser: Clapp, Jennifer 1963- (VerfasserIn), Isakson, S. Ryan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Black Point, Nova Scotia Fernwood Publishing [2018]
Rugby, Warwickshire, UK Practical Action Publishing
Schriftenreihe:Agrarian change and peasant studies 8
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Zusammenfassung:"In Speculative Harvests, Clapp and Isakson investigate the evolving relationship between the agrifood and financial sectors, paying particular attention to how the contemporary process of financialization is reshaping agrarian development and food systems. Understood as the growing prevalence of financial actors, markets, motives and profits in an economy, financialization is a defining feature of modern-day capitalism that is reconfiguring the distribution of wealth and economic power in a variety of contexts across the globe. In a clear and accessible manner, Clapp and Isakson explain the character and ramifications of these changes for the world food economy and systematically detail how different elements of agrifood provisioning...including commodity trading, farmland tenure, the management of agricultural risk, and food trading, processing, and retailing...have been reconfigured for financial purposes."...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xiv, 182 pages Diagramme 21 cm
ISBN:9781773630236

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