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Revealing agricultural land ownership concentration with cadastral and company network data
In many high-income countries, agricultural land is highly concentrated in a few hands, but detailed knowledge of ownership structures is limited. We...
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‘They call it progress, but we don’t see it as progress’: farm consolidation and land concentration in Saskatchewan, Canada
Unequal access to land, driven by decades of consolidation and concentration, is of increasing concern around the globe. This article analyzes...
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More bytes per acre: do vertical farming’s land sparing promises stand on solid ground?
Vertical farming is a rapidly expanding type of indoor controlled environment agriculture whose promises have attracted widespread praise and...
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To the Promised Land: Ethics, Religion and the Power of Storytelling
Michael Boylan’s novel, To the Promised Land, is part of his decades long project of teaching moral philosophy by including fictional narratives....
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Is Land Reform the Last Step Towards Africans’ Total Emancipation and True Empowerment?
In a long and antagonizing fight against colonial and white domination, the land question has always featured in the background as a highly contested...
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‘Smallholding for Whom?’: The effect of human capital appropriation on smallholder palm farmers
Wage inequality and land and labor insecurity are critical barriers to sustainable palm oil production among those employed in Indonesia’s small-farm...
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New entrant farming policy as predatory inclusion: (Re)production of the farm through generational renewal policy programs in Scotland
New entrant policy, literature, and research offers an important angle for exploring where dominant agrarianism is reproduced and contested. As new...
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In the shadow of state-led agrarian reforms: smallholder pervasiveness in rural China
Agricultural modernisation is a longstanding goal of China’s Party-state. Since the early 2000s, it has pursued this goal through policies designed...
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Neo-colonialism in the Polish rural world: CAP approach and the phenomenon of suitcase farmers
Notwithstanding the opportunities it provides, the implementation of some measures of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (EU CAP), including...
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Distributing the Dutch Reduction Targets
Allocating the carbon budget is a fundamental issue of distributive justice in global climate policy. At the national level, the carbon budget is...
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Human Reconfiguration of the Biosphere
The biosphere coevolves with the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere to maintain a habitable space on Earth. Over billions of years – and despite...
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Knowledge Control and the Spectacle
The intellectual property system has become universal, imposing homogenisation pressure on knowledge production, subordinated to capitalist...
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Global Change
Global change refers to changes in Earth system – including physical, chemical, and biological processes in the lithosphere (land), atmosphere (air),...
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Geoengineering
Geoengineering is a technological response to anthropogenic climate change. There are two kinds of geoengineering: Solar Radiation Management (SRM)...
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Amílcar Cabral: Agriculture, Technology and Colonialism
Amílcar Cabral (1924–1973) was an agronomist and one of the main African thinkers involved in the liberation struggle. In the 1960s and early 1970s...
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Using the ‘good farmer’ concept to explore agricultural attitudes to the provision of public goods. A case study of participants in an English agri-environment scheme
Across the European Union, the receipt of agricultural subsidisation is increasingly being predicated on the delivery of public goods. In the English...
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Political economy challenges for climate smart agriculture in Africa
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) has gained prominence in global agriculture and climate agendas for its perceived “triple win” contributions to food...
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Russian Dacha as a Social Practice in the Crisis Times
In times of crisis, humanity faces many challenges. Some sort of stability, decent nutrition, and adequate living conditions are the most basic needs...
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