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Contextualising land grabbing: contemporary land deals, the global subsistence crisis and the world food system

Akram-Lodhi, A.H.

Canadian Journal of Development Studies-Revue Canadienne D Etudes Du 33(2): 119-142

2012

ISSN/ISBN: 0225-5189
DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2012.690726
Document Number: 342678
This article analytically contextualises the spate of contemporary land deals popularly known as 'land grabbing' by locating such deals within the processes that simultaneously underpin the capitalist restructuring of global agriculture and deepen the global subsistence crisis. The article situates contemporary land deals within the context of recent rises in food prices, offers a precise definition of land grabbing and reviews the global public policy response. It then offers an agrarian political economy analysis of contemporary corporate farmland acquisition and argues that land grabbing facilitates a broadening and a deepening of industrialised capitalist agriculture as a process of 'intensification' is 'extensified' on a world scale. This is done in order to sustain the cheap food necessary for capital accumulation. It is suggested that this will not solve the biophysical and social contradictions of industrialised capitalist agriculture and the food-based social exclusion which plagues the globe.

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