Malthusianism, Capitalist Agriculture, and the Fate of Peasants in the Making of the Modern World Food System

Ross, Eric B.

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“…Livelihoods and Food Security. The dynamics of agricultural livelihood transformation are complex and involve dispossession of peasants by agrobusinesses (40). Urban land expansion also coincides with the loss of income and displacement of periurban livelihoods (41).…”

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Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

d’Amour

Reitsma

Baiocchi

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Urban expansion often occurs on croplands. However, there is little scientific understanding of how global patterns of future urban expansion will affect the world's cultivated areas. Here, we combine spatially explicit projections of urban expansion with datasets on global croplands and crop yields. Our results show that urban expansion will result in a 1.8-2.4% loss of global croplands by 2030, with substantial regional disparities. About 80% of global cropland loss from urban expansion will take place in Asia and Africa. In both Asia and Africa, much of the cropland that will be lost is more than twice as productive as national averages. Asia will experience the highest absolute loss in cropland, whereas African countries will experience the highest percentage loss of cropland. Globally, the croplands that are likely to be lost were responsible for 3-4% of worldwide crop production in 2000. Urban expansion is expected to take place on cropland that is 1.77 times more productive than the global average. The loss of cropland is likely to be accompanied by other sustainability risks and threatens livelihoods, with diverging characteristics for different megaurban regions. Governance of urban area expansion thus emerges as a key area for securing livelihoods in the agrarian economies of the Global South.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

d’Amour

Reitsma

Baiocchi

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

916

315

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“…Since the beginning of the twentieth century, features of modern agriculture such as mechanisation and the spread of hybrid plants, or the use of synthesised fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides have continued to kindle all kinds of organic movement (Scofield, 1986;Paarlberg, 2009). After two World Wars, chemicals for warfare were repurposed for agricultural use (Fedigan, 2015), scientific research among the international Green Revolution campaign advanced modern agricultural technologies as a respond to concerns of global population growth and the consequent issues of food security (Shiva, 1991;Ross, 2003;Soby, 2013).…”

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Civil society in East Asian countries: contributions to democracy, peace and sustainable development: proceedings of the conference

Didvalis¹

2018

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“…It became clear that the 'green revolution' of the 1970s and 1980s had run out of steam. Technological innovations and production gains had generated high social and ecological costs in addition to considerable production gains (Ross 2003). The policy reforms promoted in the World Development Report 2008 are mostly supply driven.…”

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From famine to food crisis: what history can teach us about local and global subsistence crises

Vanhaute

2011

Journal of Peasant Studies

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The number of famine prone regions in the world has been shrinking for centuries. It is currently mainly limited to sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the impact of endemic hunger has not declined and the early twenty-first century seems to be faced with a new threat: global subsistence crises. In this essay I question the concepts of famine and food crisis from different analytical angles: historical and contemporary famine research, food regime theory, and peasant studies. I will argue that only a more integrated historical framework of analysis can surpass dualistic interpretations grounded in Eurocentric modernization paradigms. This article successively debates historical and contemporary famine research, the contemporary food regime and the new global food crisis, the lessons from Europe's 'grand escape' from hunger, and the peasantry and 'depeasantization' as central analytical concepts. Dualistic histories of food and famine have been dominating developmentalist stories for too long. This essay shows how a blending of historical and contemporary famine research, food regime theory and new peasant studies can foster a more integrated perspective.

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Malthusianism, Capitalist Agriculture, and the Fate of Peasants in the Making of the Modern World Food System

Cited by 24 publications

References 31 publications

Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

Civil society in East Asian countries: contributions to democracy, peace and sustainable development: proceedings of the conference

From famine to food crisis: what history can teach us about local and global subsistence crises

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