Grounding the financialization of farmland: perspectives on financial actors as new land owners in rural Australia

Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Larder, Nicolette; Lawrence, Geoffrey

doi:10.1007/s10460-016-9707-2

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“…Remarkably absent from this approach, however, is a concept of engagement with, and contribution to, rural communities. Similar to findings from another rural community in central New South Wales (Sippel, Larder, & Lawrence, 2016), our informants in Dunoon did not oppose the financial goals of the company, as such. Rather, they felt that their rights to have their health protected and their environment unpolluted were being compromised and sought to participate in shaping their community's future.…”

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confidence: 78%

Consuming Rural Connections: Tracing Leeks Back to Their Roots

Kneafsey¹,

Venn²,

Bos³

2017

Transforming the Rural

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

Consuming Rural Connections: Tracing Leeks Back to Their Roots

Kneafsey¹,

Venn²,

Bos³

2017

Transforming the Rural

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“…Once the complicated emerging global relations of agricultural ownership, production and distribution became clearer, the term 'land grab' increasingly gave way to a more nuanced understanding under the header of the 'global land rush' (Borras et al, 2011;Li, 2014Li, , 2015Ouma, 2014). A wide range of actors drives this rush: agri-food companies sought to secure their inputs and consolidate market share (Amanor, 2012;Clapp, 2012;Cotula, 2012;McMichael, 2012;White et al, 2012); state-owned enterprises attempted to secure food supplies (Larder et al, 2015;Sippel, 2015;Woertz, 2013); andperhaps receiving the most attentiona growing number of financial actors sought some degree of involvement in farmland and agricultural production (Buxton et al, 2012;Clapp, 2012;Clapp & Isakson, 2018;Cotula, 2012;Fairbairn, 2014;Isakson, 2014;Ouma, 2020;Sippel et al, 2017).…”

Section: Measuring and Regulating The Global Land Rushmentioning

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“…The findings of the most wellstudied cases capture the diversity of approaches during the recent years of the land rush. Some states such as Australia (Larder et al, 2015;Magnan, 2015;Sippel, 2018;Sippel et al, 2017), Russia (Visser et al, 2012) and Ethiopia (Lavers, 2012) have welcomed foreign investment, while others such as Argentina (Perrone, 2013), Brazil (Fairbairn, 2015;Wilkinson et al, 2012) and Canada (Desmarais et al, 2017;Magnan, 2015;Magnan & Sunley, 2017) have followed a more cautious path.…”

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Foreign investments in New Zealand’s agricultural sector and their regulation, 2001–2017

Klinge

2020

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This article focuses on the case of New Zealand within the recent 'global land rush'. It analyzes data regarding foreign investments in agriculture between 2001 and 2017, traces the development of associated regulations and provides an in-depth account of the workings of the competent bureaucracy, the Overseas Investment Office. It shows how deliberately permissive regulation of foreign investments into land turned New Zealand's agricultural sector into a popular destination for capital from the Global North in the years following the global financial crisis, especially with the entry of institutional investors. However, the findings also reveal that the general extent and importance of foreign agricultural investments was moderate during the period, most likely because of limited opportunities for investors to find sufficiently large outlets for their funds. Lastly, the attempts to acquire large tracts of farmland frequently sparked popular concern and caused changes in the regulation.

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“…Desmarais, Qualman, Magnan, & Wiebe, 2017;Magnan, 2015), Australia (e.g. Larder, Sippel, & Lawrence, 2015;Sippel, Larder, & Lawrence, 2017), China (e.g. Mills, 2018), BRICS countries (e.g.…”

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Transnational land investment web: land grabs, TNCs, and the challenge of global governance

Borras

Mills

Seufert³

et al. 2019

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Despite international media's waning attention, research and political debates on global land grabbing have not subsided. We argue the importance of understanding the 'transnational land investment web' of corporate and state actors and institutions, which are not always immediately visible. Focusing on transnational corporations (TNCs) based in the European Union (EU), we examine five sets of actors and institutional spheres through which these actors are able to grab lands beyond Europe. It is crucial to understand these not as individual sets of actors or institutions, but as interconnected sets, comprising a web. These are EU-based: (1) Private companies using regular institutional platforms; (2) Finance capital companies; (3) Public-private partnerships; (4) Development Finance Institutions; and (5) Companies using EU policies to gain control of land through the supply chain. One implication of this complex web is that democratic governance in the context of land grabs becomes an even more daunting challenge.

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Grounding the financialization of farmland: perspectives on financial actors as new land owners in rural Australia

Cited by 50 publications

References 71 publications

Consuming Rural Connections: Tracing Leeks Back to Their Roots

Consuming Rural Connections: Tracing Leeks Back to Their Roots

Foreign investments in New Zealand’s agricultural sector and their regulation, 2001–2017

Transnational land investment web: land grabs, TNCs, and the challenge of global governance

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