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Paperback. Condition: New. 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 of financial actors, markets, motives and profits in an economy, financialization is a defining feature of modern-day capitalism that is reconfiguring the distribution of wealth and economic power in a variety of contexts across the globe. In a clear and accessible manner, Clapp and Isakson explain the character and ramifications of these changes for the world food economy and systematically detail how different elements of agrifood provisioning - including commodity trading, farmland tenure, the management of agricultural risk, and food trading, processing, and retailing - have been reconfigured for financial purposes.Clapp and Isakson highlight the importance of confronting the financialization of food and agriculture, identify the challenges of conventional approaches to food system reform and consider innovative alternatives. Speculative Harvests is essential reading for food scholars and activists who not only seek a better understanding of the problems inherent to the contemporary food system but also are also in search of effective interventions towards its positive transformation.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. 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 of financial actors, markets, motives and profits in an economy, financialization is a defining feature of modern-day capitalism that is reconfiguring the distribution of wealth and economic power in a variety of contexts across the globe. In a clear and accessible manner, Clapp and Isakson explain the character and ramifications of these changes for the world food economy and systematically detail how different elements of agrifood provisioning - including commodity trading, farmland tenure, the management of agricultural risk, and food trading, processing, and retailing - have been reconfigured for financial purposes.Clapp and Isakson highlight the importance of confronting the financialization of food and agriculture, identify the challenges of conventional approaches to food system reform and consider innovative alternatives. Speculative Harvests is essential reading for food scholars and activists who not only seek a better understanding of the problems inherent to the contemporary food system but also are also in search of effective interventions towards its positive transformation.…

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorJennifer Clapp is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

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Rústica. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo. 01. Este libro nos ofrece una perspectiva detallada de los vínculos entre los sistemas alimentario y financiero, ofreciendo una mayor claridad sobre este tema, gracias al uso de un vocabulario cotidiano y ejemplos concretos. Examina los mecanismos mediante los cuales los procesos de financiación han transformado muchos elementos del sector agrícola en clases de activos o en campos de inversión financiera. También explora cómo las empresas agroalimentarias utilizan sofisticadas herramientas financieras para aumentar sus beneficios. Este libro también documenta y explica la amplitud y formas sin precedentes de estos recientes cambios, con particular atención a las funciones desempeñadas por los diferentes factores sociales y subraya los impactos que han tenido en los diferentes sectores del sistema agroalimentario. LIBRO.…

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Condition: New. Editor(s): Isakson, Ryan. Series: Critical Agrarian Studies. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: KCP; KNAC; KNAF; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 174. Weight in Grams: 654. . 2015. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . .

Condition: New. Editor(s): Isakson, Ryan. Series: Critical Agrarian Studies. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: KCP; KNAC; KNAF; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 174. Weight in Grams: 654. . 2015. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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