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The Political Economy of Food and Finance
Author | : Ted P. Schmidt |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2015-12-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781317561347 |
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The financialization, globalization and industrialization of our food systems make it increasingly difficult to access quality fresh food. In fact, the industrialized global food system is creating products that are less food-like, engendering growing questions about the health and safety of our food supply. In addition, the bio-engineering of food commodities is another factor influencing the growth of industrial farming for an increasingly homogenized, globalized market. This book describes the financialization process in commodity futures markets which transformed commodities into an asset class. Incorporated into the portfolio decisions of investors, commodity prices now behave like all asset prices, becoming more volatile and subject to periodic bubbles. As commodity prices were driven higher in the 2000s, farmland became more valuable, setting off a global land grab by investors, nations, and corporations. More recently, under the financialization food regime, slow growth and low returns encouraged merger activity driven by private equity firms, with food industry corporations as prime targets, leading to increased industry concentration. With government policy focused on supporting corporate interests, there has been a global reaction to the current food system. The food sovereignty movement is taking on the interests behind the global land grab, and the regional food movement in cities across the U.S. is hitting corporations at the bottom line. Food corporations are listening. Is the food movement winning? This book is of interest to those who study political economy, financialization and agriculture and related studies, as well as food systems and commodity future markets.
The Political Economy of Food and Finance
Author | : Ted P. Schmidt |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2015-12-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781317561354 |
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The financialization, globalization and industrialization of our food systems make it increasingly difficult to access quality fresh food. In fact, the industrialized global food system is creating products that are less food-like, engendering growing questions about the health and safety of our food supply. In addition, the bio-engineering of food commodities is another factor influencing the growth of industrial farming for an increasingly homogenized, globalized market. This book describes the financialization process in commodity futures markets which transformed commodities into an asset class. Incorporated into the portfolio decisions of investors, commodity prices now behave like all asset prices, becoming more volatile and subject to periodic bubbles. As commodity prices were driven higher in the 2000s, farmland became more valuable, setting off a global land grab by investors, nations, and corporations. More recently, under the financialization food regime, slow growth and low returns encouraged merger activity driven by private equity firms, with food industry corporations as prime targets, leading to increased industry concentration. With government policy focused on supporting corporate interests, there has been a global reaction to the current food system. The food sovereignty movement is taking on the interests behind the global land grab, and the regional food movement in cities across the U.S. is hitting corporations at the bottom line. Food corporations are listening. Is the food movement winning? This book is of interest to those who study political economy, financialization and agriculture and related studies, as well as food systems and commodity future markets.
Finance or Food
Author | : Hilde Bj›rkhaug,Philip McMichael,Bruce Muirhead |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9781487522476 |
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In this volume, an interdisciplinary and internationally- situated group of experts consider the ways in which culture creates and transforms discourses and practices in decisions on agricultural land.
Handbook of the International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food
Author | : Alessandro Bonanno,Lawrence Busch |
Publsiher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781782548263 |
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This book tackles the central question of the political and structural changes and characteristics that govern agriculture and food. Original contributions explore this highly globalized economic sector by analyzing salient geographical regions and sub
The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies
Author | : Johan Swinnen |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2018-05-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781137501028 |
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Food and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and in developed countries. Today, more than half a trillion US dollars are spent by some governments to support farmers, while other governments impose regulations and taxes that hurt farmers. Some policies, such as price regulations and tariffs, distribute income but reduce total welfare by introducing economic distortions. Other policies, such as public investments in research, food standards, or land reforms, may increase total welfare, but these policies come also with distributional effects. These distributional effects influence the preferences of interest groups and in turn influence policy decisions. Political considerations are therefore crucial to understand how agricultural and food policies are determined, to identify the constraints within which welfare-enhancing reforms are possible (or not), and finally to understand how coalitions can be created to stimulate growth and reduce poverty.
Law and the Political Economy of Hunger
Author | : Anna Chadwick |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2019-01-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780192557223 |
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This book is an inquiry into the role of law in the contemporary political economy of hunger. In the work of many international institutions, governments, and NGOs, law is represented as a solution to the persistence of hunger. This presentation is evident in the efforts to realize a human right to adequate food, as well as in the positioning of law, in the form of regulation, as a tool to protect society from 'unruly' markets. In this monograph, Anna Chadwick draws on theoretical work from a range of disciplines to challenge accounts that portray law's role in the context of hunger as exclusively remedial. The book takes as its starting point claims that financial traders 'caused' the 2007-8 global food crisis by speculating in financial instruments linked to the prices of staple grains. The introduction of new regulations to curb the 'excesses' of the financial sector in order to protect the food insecure reinforces the dominant perception that law can solve the problem. Chadwick investigates a number of different legal regimes spanning public international law, international economic law, transnational governance, private law, and human rights law to gather evidence for a counterclaim: law is part of the problem. The character of the contemporary global food system-a food system that is being progressively 'financialized'-owes everything to law. If world hunger is to be eradicated, Chadwick argues, then greater attention needs to be paid to how different legal regimes operate to consistently privilege the interests of the wealthy few over the needs of poor and the hungry.
The Political Economy of Food Aid
Author | : John Cathie |
Publsiher | : Gower Publishing Company, Limited |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105037803561 |
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While Accepting The Role Of Food Aid In Humanitarian Relief, The Author Seriously Questions The Whole Practice As A Tool In Social And Economic Development. In Good Condition.
The Political Economy of Arab Food Sovereignty
Author | : J. Harrigan |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2014-06-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781137339386 |
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A political economy analysis of the history of food security in the Arab world, including the role played by the global food price crisis in the Arab Spring and the Arab response aiming at greater food sovereignty via domestic food production and land acquisition overseas – the so-called land grab.