Resisting Agribusiness in the Global South
Capitalism, Ecology, and Agrarian Change
Resisting Agribusiness in the Global South
Capitalism, Ecology, and Agrarian Change
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Description
This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary discussion of agribusiness across the Global South and emerging resistance and alternatives to it.
Bringing together researchers and policymakers from Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the book details the social, economic, ecological, and food-insecurity impacts of agribusiness expansion across all these regions. With special emphasis on the perspectives of early career researchers and other emerging voices, it provides new, on-the-ground insights into relations between agribusiness and global commodity chains; entanglements between agribusiness, ecological plunder, and food insecurity; and emerging trends among Global-South-led alternatives and resistance to the current neoliberal status quo. In organizing itself into clear sections under these three themes, it brings out hidden connections between experiences at the national, regional, and global levels.
This is a must-have resource for students, researchers, policymakers, and activists concerned with Global South development, sustainable development, sustainable agriculture, regional planning, and food studies.
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Table of Contents
Part I. Agribusiness and Global Commodity Chains
1. Expansion of Agrarian Capital and Soy Production in Paraguay
Ramón Fogel (Centro de Estudios Rurales Interdisciplinarios, Paraguay) and Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
2. Registers of Power in Integration Processes: The Relationship between Family Farmers and Agrobusiness in the Ecuadorian Corn Sector
Tamara Artacker (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria)
3. Economic Liberalisation and the 'Business' of Agriculture in India. Surajit Mazumdar
4. Contract Farming in South America: The Evolution of Agro-industries in Argentina and Brazil
Paris Yeros (Federal University of ABC, Brazil), Agostina Costantino (Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas y Sociales del Sur, Argentina), and Thiago Lima (Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil)
5. A Chain of Inequalities: Pillars of the Global Governance of Coffee Production
Luiza Dulci (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Workers Party of Brazil, Belo Horizonte City Council)
Part II. Agribusiness, Ecological Plunder, and Food Insecurity
6.Agritech and Development: Low Roads and High Roads. Eskil Enassen, Hans Schaler, Aaron Schneider
7. The “Nitrogen-Trap” and Modern Imperialism in Agribusiness. Ankit Singh, Puja Rani and Avinash Kumar
8. The Coloniality of South Africa's Food System and the Contemporary Food Crisis
Brittany Kesselman (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
9. Agribusiness, Self-Exploitation and Ecological Plunder in Zimbabwe
Freedom Mazwi (University of Zambia, Zambia)
10. Indian Agribusiness in Africa: (Ir)responsible Governance of Tenure
Praveen Jha and Santosh Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Part III. Southern Resistance ad Alternatives
11. Agribusiness, Changing Class Dynamics, and Peasant Protests. Archana Prasad and Praveen Jha
12. Labour tenants' struggles for farmland against Capitalist Farming in South Africa. Mnqobi Ngubane
13. Agribusiness and Agrarian Movements in a Hill State: The Case of Adani Agrifresh in Himachal Pradesh. Shubhojeet Dey
14. Agribusiness, agrarian reform and livelihoods in South Africa: opportunities, pitfalls and impacts. Clemence Rusenga
15. Cooperation in Production as an Alternative for the Global South: A Case Study of Kudumbashree Farm Collectives of Kerala, India. Dev Krishnan Anil
Product details
| Published | 24 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 280 |
| ISBN | 9781350613775 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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