Industrial Maize as a Commodity System: Spatial Scale and Relations of Production in Turkey's Agriculture After Economic Restructuring

Abstract

During the decade of 2000‐2010, industrial maize production in Turkey doubled to approximately four million tons and the area under maize cultivation increased by ten per cent. Concomitant with the increase in total output, private agri‐food industry came to control 90 per cent of total production by 2010. Using exploratory spatial analysis and spatial regression methods, we are able to have a more detailed and spatially explicit regional study of a commodity system across Turkey. We argue that maize production in Turkey developed in the 2000s along the tenets of a corporate food regime according to demands by agri‐food firms. However, small‐scale farmers are not fully excluded from corporate relations of production, and low‐yield traditional maize farming persists in some provinces as an important field crop for household consumption.

Research on Industry Development Path Planning of Resource-Rich Regions in China from the Perspective of “Resources, Assets, Capital”

“…The government must adhere to a demand-oriented approach and use innovative technologies to drive the resource industry. While ensuring the basic needs of resources, we should clarify the industrial structure of resource-rich regions, adjust the perspective of resource industry development, and gradually optimize the industrial hierarchy, thereby driving regional high-quality development [49][50][51][52].…”

Devlet ve Küresel Piyasa Arasında: Karadeniz Bölgesi’nde Küçük Ölçekli Fındık Üretimi

“…The "global food regime," which is controlled by multinational companies (MNC) pushes one segment of small-scale farmers into an enlarging "circuit of casual labor" (McMichael, 2005, p. 266) while another segment becomes the supplier of raw materials to global agri-food corporations (Glenna, 2003;Bonanno, 2011). In developing countries, agricultural structures have been increasingly controlled by global supply chains while the small peasantry survives in a sea of uncertainties (Borlu, 2015;Borlu & Matthews, 2018). Small-scale farmers cannot store their products and have to sell to the market at current prices that sometimes fall short of meeting their production costs.…”