Empowering Family Farms through Cooperatives and Producer Marketing Boards

Moran, Warren; Blunden, Greg; Bradly, Adrian

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“…As a result, it has attracted criticism from some quarters for monopolising the wool market in the UK (Moran et al . ). However, the BWMB may also be viewed in a more positive light by holding out against neoliberal policy and protecting the interests of small‐scale producers.…”

Section: Tracing Newtown Woolmentioning

confidence: 97%

Unravelling the Global Wool Assemblage: Researching Place and Production Networks in the Global Countryside

Jones¹,

Heley²,

Woods³

2018

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article applies an assemblage reading to the contemporary global woollen industry to demonstrate how assemblage thinking has value as a methodology for generating insights into the local impact of global economic restructuring; bridging concerns with the relationality of rural places and translocal production networks. Putting assemblage into research practice, we trace the interactions and interdependencies between human and non‐human, organic and inorganic, technical and natural components of the global wool assemblage from the entry point of Newtown in mid‐Wales. In so doing, we call attention to those critical moments in this schema that may be usefully exposed or explored via the concept of assemblage. Here we consider the agency of non‐human actors, as well as the biological, technological, regulatory and marketing regimes that seek to produce wool as a globally mobile commodity. Through their enrolment in these sets of relations, Welsh farmers are exposed to the effects of spatially dispersed and contingent dynamics. Using the example of wool we develop a broad argument for using a framework of assemblage alongside other critical theories as a means of grasping how rural societies, places and communities are negotiating change in the context of globalisation.

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Section: Tracing Newtown Woolmentioning

confidence: 97%

Unravelling the Global Wool Assemblage: Researching Place and Production Networks in the Global Countryside

Jones¹,

Heley²,

Woods³

2018

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…However, Boltvinik does appear convinced that successful state interventions in advanced capitalist countries have mitigated those labor value deficiencies that in the past produced a peasant class. He concludes by advocating the same state‐interventionist policies for peasant farmers in Latin America that have been well documented in the agricultural economics literature (see Moran, Blunden, and Bradly ). Unfortunately, readers will not find any hint of the current legitimation crisis under neoliberalism found in advanced farming societies today, including the effects of institutional racism and the exploitation of undocumented and documented migrant workers (Grim ; Levins ; Ward ).…”

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Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty‐first Century: Theories, Debates, Realities, and Policies, edited by JulioBoltvinik and SusanArcher Mann, London, England: Zed Books, 2016. 456 pp. $35.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐78360‐843‐0.

Brocato

2018

Rural Sociology

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“…The first stage of neoliberalism constituted a period of "intense legislative change" (Moran et al, 1996: 166) which, we argue, was more or less finished by the time the Resource Management Act (RMA) was implemented in 1991. The initial impacts of the reforms on farmers were predictably dramatic.…”

Section: The Neoliberalisation Of the New Zealand Agricultural Sectormentioning

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Market liberalisation and drought in New Zealand: A case of ‘double exposure’ for dryland sheep farmers?

Burton

Peoples

2014

Journal of Rural Studies

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Market liberalisation/globalisation and climate change are two great global political/economic challenges of our time. Researchers have noted that the coincidence of these events has resulted in 'double exposure' where the positive or negative effects can overlap creating a pattern of winners and losers, particularly in the agricultural sector. However, existing research has been focused on developing economies leaving the issue of double exposure in economically developed economies relatively under-researched. To address this gap, this paper examines three droughts that occurred in North Otago/South Canterbury (New Zealand) over the last 30 years, and focuses on how market liberalisation in 1984 influenced dryland sheep farmers' ability to cope with drought. From in-depth farmer interviews we find that neoliberalism's impact has changed as the neoliberal project has developed from a position where there were few winners (1980s), to few losers (1990s), and, currently, to increasingly sectorally based winners and losers (2000s). We relate this to the developing influence of neoliberalism and suggest how neoliberalism may be influencing the vulnerability of agriculture to future droughts. A key finding is how neoliberalism has promoted the reconfiguring of rural space around the expanding dairy industry and how this is now influencing the vulnerability of both dryland sheep and dairy farmers to future droughts. Finally, we briefly consider the implications of the findings for the 'double exposure' framework.

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Empowering Family Farms through Cooperatives and Producer Marketing Boards

Cited by 28 publications

References 16 publications

Unravelling the Global Wool Assemblage: Researching Place and Production Networks in the Global Countryside

Unravelling the Global Wool Assemblage: Researching Place and Production Networks in the Global Countryside

Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty‐first Century: Theories, Debates, Realities, and Policies, edited by JulioBoltvinik and SusanArcher Mann, London, England: Zed Books, 2016. 456 pp. $35.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐78360‐843‐0.

Market liberalisation and drought in New Zealand: A case of ‘double exposure’ for dryland sheep farmers?

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