A farewell to urban/rural bias: peripheral finance capitalism in Mexico

Reis, Nadine

doi:10.1080/03066150.2017.1395856

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“…In this way, the liberalization/globalization of the Mexican economy that spurred the peasant crisis and increased rural migration flows to the United States has led to the gradual end of the rural–urban bias. The farewell to the urban/rural bias in Mexico has not only come, as Nadine Reis (2019) suggests, through the peripheral financialization of economic activities through cheap labour and debt, but importantly through the increased and now deeply entrenched interrelations of people, capital and peasant agricultural production between the rural/urban and the local/global spheres. These deep interrelations are, as this case study suggests, rooted in widespread cyclical international migration, remittances and the high levels of semi‐proletarianization of the Mexican peasantry.…”

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The end of the rural/urban divide? Migration, proletarianization, differentiation and peasant production in an ejido, Central Mexico

Hoogesteger

Rivara²

2020

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This article explores the relations between agricultural production, international migration, wage labour and processes of differentiation among peasant households. It does so based on the analysis of the ejido Jesús María in the northeast of the state of Guanajuato, Central Mexico. The history of this ejido and how Mexican neoliberal policies led to increased levels of migration and proletarianization since at least the early 1990s is presented. Then, it presents how in this context the production of asparagus for agro‐export developed on the irrigated lands of this ejido, showing that this process went hand in hand with social differentiation and important changes in the distribution of land and water. Then, it presents the results of a household and production survey that shows that most peasant households combine agricultural production with local urban and rural wage labour, migration, remittances and/or other economic activities. Households that can live from agriculture alone have had important capital investments in agricultural production coming from international migration and remittances. Based on these results, it argues that, as rural communities become increasingly dependent on external ‘urban/global’ capital, the rural/urban divide has become increasingly permeable with important consequences for peasant economies and related social differentiation processes.

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The end of the rural/urban divide? Migration, proletarianization, differentiation and peasant production in an ejido, Central Mexico

Hoogesteger

Rivara²

2020

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…Agricultural land could be parceled and used individually but could not be sold or rented, whereas forests were to remain undivided (Klooster 2003). After a constitutional and agrarian reform in 1992, ejidos and agrarian communities could privatize and divide part or the totality of their collective land among assembly members, and sell or rent it to external agents (Randall 1996). The study area comprises 41 agrarian communities (161,231 ha), 51 ejidos (63,747 ha), 5 mixed communities, i.e., localities with both agrarian community and ejido (37,244 ha), and 131,567 ha of private property (Fig, 1).…”

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“…Sawmills in the north provide below-cost packing crates from illegal timber, and subsistence activities help supply cheap labor for the nearby orchards. Thus, benefits along the commercialization chain are being extracted at the expense of human resources and the forests in the north (Reis 2019).…”

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Unraveling complex relations between forest-cover change and conflicts through spatial and relational analyses

Pérez-Llorente¹,

Ramírez²,

Paneque-Gálvez³

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Despite the increasing prevalence of forest-cover change and conflicts, most studies have been unable to unravel the complex relations between the two processes. We attribute this failure to methodological limitations. We put forward an alternative approach that combines different datasets (remote sensing, GIS, local narratives, official censuses, newspaper articles), methods (spatial and relational analyses), and scales (subregions, economic sectors, land-based activities) to create a robust explanation of the relations between different intensities of forest-cover change and conflict in the Meseta Purépecha region, central Mexico. This is an important forest region, inhabited by indigenous and mestizo peasants; it has a worldwide reputation for community forestry and is also the epicenter of international avocado production. Forest-cover change is intense and there are recurrent episodes of conflict. We clustered communities in three subregions according to their patterns of forest-cover change. We analyzed the spatial patterns of forest-cover change and conflicts and we characterized the structure and function of the different economic sectors to unravel the nonlinear, interdependent (and sometimes contradictory) relations among these processes. We found that avocado production has differentially shaped the composition and working of society within each subregion, leading to three diverging patterns. Avocado production has provoked conflicts over landownership and over illegal logging in nearby areas. In some areas, a low incidence of conflicts over forest clearance might be explained by high profits, coercion, and violence. We suggest that, by combining spatial and relational analyses, we can integrate and check the congruence of nonequivalent representations from quantitative sources and observant participation at different scales and explain the heterogeneity that processes display across space. Our methodological approach can thus improve our understanding of similar and other complex and uncertain environmental problems elsewhere, especially when accurate or appropriate data are missing.

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“…Agriculture has substantial effects on the rest of the economy due to economic growth [3][4][5]. Agriculture directly affects macroeconomic policies, prices, and exchange rates [6,7]. Therefore, the role of agriculture and its relations with the rest of the economy must be understood.…”

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Does Agricultural Export Promote Nepalese Economic Growth? ARDL Approach Using Structural Break

Ghimire

Zhuang

2021

E3S Web Conf.

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This study examines the impact of agricultural export on the economic growth in Nepal for the time period of 1970-2015. In this analysis, researchers used the ARDL model using structural break to investigate the relationship between agricultural exports and economic growth in Nepal. Agricultural land, exchange rate, foreign direct investment, trade openness and agricultural environmental pollution have all been included in this analysis. According to estimates, ARDL, tend towards short-run relationship has been validated. Whereas, in the long-run relation we found negative relation. Furthermore, this study found that agricultural land is directly affecting economic growth. This study recommends policies that improve agricultural production and trade should be strongly pursued to help boost a country’s economic growth

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A farewell to urban/rural bias: peripheral finance capitalism in Mexico

Cited by 9 publications

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The end of the rural/urban divide? Migration, proletarianization, differentiation and peasant production in an ejido, Central Mexico

The end of the rural/urban divide? Migration, proletarianization, differentiation and peasant production in an ejido, Central Mexico

Unraveling complex relations between forest-cover change and conflicts through spatial and relational analyses

Does Agricultural Export Promote Nepalese Economic Growth? ARDL Approach Using Structural Break

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