Improving farmers markets and challenging neoliberalism in Argentina

Leslie, Isaac Sohn

doi:10.1007/s10460-017-9774-z

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“…In the specific case of the countries of this region, Kay states that the central objective of neoliberal policy has been to strengthen private land ownership in order to create a more flexible and active land market [25]. Thus, with liberalization and the development of a competitive market, those farmers who do not invest in the "modernization" of their production will not be able to survive and will be forced to sell their land to the most "competitive" producers [25,29,30]. This process has led to important land re-concentrations throughout Latin America and has added to the trends of land grabbing due to the crisis of the global food regime which was caused by the increase in food prices between 2007 and 2008 [31].…”

Section: Neoliberalism and Agribusinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agribusiness Facing Its Limits: The Re-Design of Neoliberalization Strategies in the Exporting Agriculture Sector in Chile

Pinto

Roose

Faúndez

2020

Land

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The core neoliberal strategy of Chilean agrarian politics has lasted now for more than 30 years. Despite minor reforms, its fundamental pillars remain in place. While members of the agribusiness sector consider this strategy to be a role-model for food production leading to explosive economic growth, the last decade exposed its socio-ecological limits, such as declining water availability and increased conflicts over land. Taking critical literature on neoliberalization as a theoretical approach, we used law and literature reviews as well as qualitative interviews with actors from the public and private sectors to reveal the details of the strategies in the exporting agriculture sector in Chile. From the understanding of neoliberalization as a multi-layered process, we analyzed the data, focusing on three dimensions of agribusiness in Chile: (a) regulation, (b) spatial fix, and (c) ideological paradigms. In doing so, we uncovered how far the coping strategies chosen by the state and private sector have re-designed and strengthened the process of agriculture neoliberalization in order to push its own socio-ecological limits.

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Section: Neoliberalism and Agribusinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This process deepened the inequalities between those "enabled" farmers who managed to integrate into the export market and those who did not manage to participate in the global food production chain [25]. In addition, it also deepened the dependence on large-scale farms and transnational corporations [30].…”

Section: Neoliberalism and Agribusinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agribusiness Facing Its Limits: The Re-Design of Neoliberalization Strategies in the Exporting Agriculture Sector in Chile

Pinto

Roose

Faúndez

2020

Land

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“…Despite the fact that there are several publications documenting markets in various parts of the world, such as France [38], Norway [39,40], Austria [41], Lithuania [42], Taiwan [23,43], Argentina [6], Peru [18], Costa Rica [16,44,45], and Africa [46,47], the most frequently cited publications are, primarily, documented cases in North America and Western Europe ( Table 2). Most of them are research papers focusing on specific case studies, food safety, and some with some theoretical contribution to existing theories.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are various advantages to this system; it allows producers to sell their products to their customers and to be in direct contact with them, and it also enables the producers to earn sufficient income and increases the number of socially and environmentally sustainable food systems [5]. For the consumer, the advantage is access to fresh, high-quality, healthy, highly nutritious, and locally available products [6]. There are several studies that focused on the relevance of farmers' markets in the support of local food systems, yet the concept of local remains fuzzy for the consumer, as distance can be definied in several ways (e.g., distance from their home, produced within 100 miles, or produced in their state), as well as the seasonal limits of local food, revealing the need to have better educated customers [7].…”

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Farmers’ Market Actors, Dynamics, and Attributes: A Bibliometric Study

Figueroa-Rodríguez,

Álvarez-Ávila,

Hernández Castillo

et al. 2019

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Farmers’ markets aim to bring producers and consumers together under direct marketing schemes, also known as alternative food networks, for local and sustainable production and consumption of food. A number of studies concerning this subject have been published, however, as yet no updated reviews exist that might allow us to understand the trends in research on farmers’ markets. The objective of this study was to examine the farmers’ market literature using bibliometric tools. A total of 438 peer-reviewed publications, indexed in the abstract and citation meta-database Scopus (Elsevier®), for the period of 1979 to September 24, 2018, were considered. In the second phase, publications in the area of medicine were excluded, resulting in 295 publications being analyzed for the same period. The results showed that these publications focused on three main areas: markets, health programs, and food safety. Upon exclusion of the medical publications, the remaining works focused on farmers’ market actors, dynamics, and attributes: vendors (producers and others), consumers, the community, and supporting actors and institutions (government, NGOs, individuals). Therefore, it is concluded that there is no single type of farmers’ market, nor of farmers’ market vendors or consumers. This makes the reproduction of such spaces difficult, especially when the goals are to benefit local production systems or the nutrition of the local community.

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“…Tropical fruits and sweeteners could be sent to the US, and cold weather crops (grains and apples, broccoli, beets, carrots) sent to Cuba without undermining existing industries in either country. Some Cuban growers have also identified "mercados solidarios" (markets based on solidarity) (Leslie, 2017) as a means to support agroecological efforts both in Cuba and the US by directly connecting communities with similar social and ecological principles. For example, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives from the US has had a longstanding relationship with Cuba's ANAP since 1999 and have been exploring opportunities in establishing fair trade agreements with their cooperatives and farmers.…”

Section: Commercial Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

New opportunities, new challenges: Harnessing Cuba’s advances in agroecology and sustainable agriculture in the context of changing relations with the United States

Fernandez

Williams

Figueroa³

et al. 2018

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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Cuba's transition to agroecology is perhaps as widely known as it is misunderstood. In response to the economic crisis of the early 1990s, the Cuban agricultural sector largely departed from the industrial model of food production that it had previously pursued. The subsequent transition towards an agroecological model has been a dynamic and uneven process, elevating Cuba on the world stage as a global leader in sustainable agriculture while at the same time producing unique challenges for Cuban farmers, policy makers, researchers and academics. This article synthesizes and updates contemporary literature on the Cuban agricultural system, paying attention to both successes and shortcomings of agroecology in Cuba to date. In particular, it situates these literatures alongside contributions from academics and practitioners alike, bringing a number of data sets, experiences, and perspectives into conversation in the context of changing realities within Cuba and the nation's evolving geopolitical relationship with the United States. By analyzing both the historical and contemporary processes through which agroecology has taken root in Cuba, we demonstrate that, despite its uneven and incomplete implementation, such a sustainable agroecological transition holds great, untapped potential. Agroecology in Cuba currently faces pressure from normalizing Cuba-US relations, with potentially profound implications for agriculture in both countries. But increasing opportunities are also emerging for investment, collaboration, knowledge exchange, and solidarity. In this paper, we provide an overview of the evolution of the Cuban agroecology movement; analyze the state of food security and challenges to food sovereignty on the island today; outline US-Cuba policy changes occurring since December 2014 that may affect the agrifood sector; and conclude with recommendations for supporting agroecology -for food security, food sovereignty, and sustainability -under this new and evolving relationship. Please refer to Supplementary Materials, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.337.s1, for a full text Spanish version of this article.La transición agroecológica cubana es quizás tan ampliamente conocida como malentendida. Como respuesta a la crisis económica a principio de los 90, el sector agropecuario cubano se apartó en gran medida del modelo industrial de producción alimentaria que anteriormente había perseguido. La transición posterior hacia un modelo agroecológico ha sido un proceso dinámico y heterogéneo, que 1) ha convertido a Cuba en líder en el desarrollo de una agricultura sostenible a escala global y que, al mismo tiempo, 2) ha producido

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Improving farmers markets and challenging neoliberalism in Argentina

Cited by 13 publications

References 36 publications

Agribusiness Facing Its Limits: The Re-Design of Neoliberalization Strategies in the Exporting Agriculture Sector in Chile

Agribusiness Facing Its Limits: The Re-Design of Neoliberalization Strategies in the Exporting Agriculture Sector in Chile

Farmers’ Market Actors, Dynamics, and Attributes: A Bibliometric Study

New opportunities, new challenges: Harnessing Cuba’s advances in agroecology and sustainable agriculture in the context of changing relations with the United States

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