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‘Capitalism a Nuh’ Wi Frien’ : the formatting of farming into an asset, from financial speculation to international aid
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Russi, Luigi and Ferrando, Tomaso (2015) ‘Capitalism a Nuh’ Wi Frien’ : the formatting of farming into an asset, from financial speculation to international aid. Catalyst : A Social Justice Forum, 6 (1). pp. 1-21. 7. ISSN 2160-1844.
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Official URL: http://trace.tennessee.edu/catalyst/vol6/iss1/7
Abstract
This paper deciphers the formatting of farming into an asset by tracking the modalities by which financial calculation is enabled across different sites of agency. The first focus of our analysis are commodity futures markets, which have witnessed a double spike in prices in 2008 and in 2012. In the paper, we look at these hikes as the outcome of endogenous dynamics, caused by the changing makeup of market participants after 2000, which turned futures markets into resources for hedging commodity index-linked derivative products. We subsequently analyse the increasing reliance on financial actors placed by public development agencies that channel funds through private equity initiatives to acquire and invest in farmland. To complete our analysis, we finally set our contribution alongside the alternative represented by food-sovereignty, which offers the promise of heeding to the needs engendered from within the peasant milieu, as opposed to subjugating it to extrinsic quantitative metrics.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Commodity futures | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Catalyst : A Social Justice Forum | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Tennessee at Knoxville | ||||||
ISSN: | 2160-1844 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 6 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 21 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-21 | ||||||
Article Number: | 7 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 March 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 March 2016 | ||||||
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