Innovations are fast changing the agricultural landscape driven by the increasing need to shift towards sustainable practices without sacrificing the productivity and profitability of farming. Innovations in technology, institutions, processes, and products have contributed to the growth of...

The last decade has witnessed an increase in the interest in agricultural land in developing countries. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding the impacts of this increased interest in agricultural land, very little is known about how local smallholder communities are...

List of contributors -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: industrialisation and socialisation of agriculture, towards new regimes -- Novel approaches and theories of global agri-economies -- The ambivalent capitalist socialisation of agriculture -- Regulation...

Americans enjoy some of the cheapest, most convenient food on the planet. But like most bargains that are too good to be true, the modern food system is a fraud. It is built on the illusion of limitless abundance, and the planet has its limits. So too do the workers who must labor harder and...

The adoption of modern technologies in agriculture is crucial for improving productivity of poor farmers and poverty reduction. However, the adoption of modern technology has been disappointing. The role of value chains in technology adoption has been largely ignored so far, despite the dramatic...

The political ecology of agri-food systems -- Realising agro-neoliberalism in Brazil -- Push and hold the agribusiness frontier -- The rent of agribusiness -- Displacement, replacement and misplacement -- Poverty in rich Amazonian ecosystems -- Conclusions : fields of empty grains

Introduction -- Preliminary tools -- Black peoples' territories in Colombia and Ecuador : beyond capitalist accumulation and peripheral economy -- The long history of the palm oil agribusiness and development in Tumaco and San Lorenzo -- Imperialism, unequal exchange and palm oil -- Capital...

The global competitiveness and comparative advantages of agri food sectors -- Indicators of agri food sectors of Serbia -- Identification of comparative advantages of agricultural products and products of processed food sector of Serbia -- The comparative advantages of manufacturing industry of...

Acknowledgement -- Introduction / Alessandro Bonanno and Steven Wolf -- The corporate domination of agri-food -- Is resistance futile? : how global agri-food attempts to co-opt the alternatives / Lawrence Busch -- Best practices : the artificial negativity of agri-food / Alessandro Bonanno --...

"In Speculative Harvests, Clapp and Isakson investigate the evolving relationship between the agrifood and financial sectors, paying particular attention to how the contemporary process of financialization is reshaping agrarian development and food systems. Understood as the growing prevalence...