The Political Economy Of Agricultural Booms
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Author | : Mariano Turzi |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2016-11-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319459465 |
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the political economy of soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, by identifying the dominant private and public actors and control mechanisms that have given rise to a corporate-driven, vertically integrated system of regionalized agricultural production in the Southern Cone of South America. The current agricultural boom surrounding soybean production has been aided by aggressive new agro-technologies, including biotechnology, leading to massive organizational changes in the agricultural sector and a significant rise in the power of special interest groups and corporations. Despite having similar initial production conditions, the pattern of economic activity surrounding soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, continues to be largely determined by the needs of the multinational corporations involved, rather than national considerations of comparative advantage. The author uses these findings to argue that the new international model of agricultural production empowers chemical and trading multinational companies over national governments.
Author | : Johan Swinnen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-05-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1137501022 |
Winner of the European Association of Agricultural Economists Book Award 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.
Author | : Johan Swinnen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781137501035 |
Author | : Kym Anderson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-08-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1139491024 |
Despite numerous policy reforms since the 1980s, farm product prices remain heavily distorted in both high-income and developing countries. This book seeks to improve our understanding of why societies adopted these policies, and why some but not other countries have undertaken reforms. Drawing on recent developments in political economy theories and in the generation of empirical measures of the extent of price distortions, the present volume provides both analytical narratives of the historical origins of agricultural protectionism in various parts of the world and a set of political econometric analyses aimed at explaining the patterns of distortions that have emerged over the past five decades. These new studies shed much light on the forces affecting incentives and those facing farmers in the course of national and global economic and political development. They also show how those distortions might change in the future.
Author | : Brad Bauerly |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2016-09-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004314148 |
The Agrarian Seeds of Empire outlines the influence of agrarian movements on the process of US institutional capacity building between 1840- 1980. Out of the mix of the developing new Nation and the expanding capitalist system emerged strong farmer’s movements that produced state building processes central to American political development. It will show how the forces of state building and social movements converged to produce agro-industrialization. This agro-industrial developmental project was instrumental in both the development of the industrial food system and US Empire as the institutional capacities were later used to impose the same project outside of the US. These findings link together and augment existing approaches to capitalist development, International Relations, and theories of the state and the food system.
Author | : Alessandro Bonanno |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1782548262 |
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
Author | : E.C. Pasour, Jr. |
Publisher | : Independent Institute |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1598131931 |
Agricultural subsidies in grains, cotton, milk, sugar, tobacco, honey, wool, and peanuts are analyzed in this examination of U.S. farm policy. Looking at such programs as food stamps, crop insurance, subsidized credit, trade credit, trade subsidies and import restrictions, conservation, agricultural research, and taxation, this historical perspective argues that these subsidies ultimately redistribute wealth to powerful agricultural interests who use their political clout to advance their economic interests at the expense of the general public. This analysis of government farm programs will appeal to professors and students who study agriculture; people affected by government farm policies; public officials, and businesses affected by agricultural policy such as those in food service, retail, and distribution.
Author | : Thomas Joplin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1823 |
Genre | : Banks and banking |
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Author | : E Wesley F Peterson |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Intended as a primary textbook for upper-division undergraduate and master's level courses on agricultural, food, natural resource and environmental policy, this book's broad coverage ties economic theory to public policy analysis. Using the rich history of agricultural policy in the United States and in other countries, this text provides students and instructors with essential theoretical foundations for policy analysis.
Author | : William H Friedland |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2021-11-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000009459 |
The emergence of a truly global economy in the 1970s and the need to understand the subsequent changes in economic structure provided the impetus for this synthesis of the sociology of agriculture. The book offers the first formulations of a political economy theory that explains the transnational social and production relations of food and agriculture. Drawing upon studies of labour, technology, the state and gender, the contributors put forward a basis for reassessing and restating the intellectual framework of agriculture.