Food crises, food regimes and food movements: rumblings of reform or tides of transformation? [0.03%]
粮食危机、粮食制度与粮食运动：改革的前奏还是转型的浪潮？
Eric Holt Giménez,Annie Shattuck
Eric Holt Giménez
This article addresses the potential for food movements to bring about substantive changes to the current global food system. After describing the current corporate food regime, we apply Karl Polanyi's 'double-movement' thesis on capitalism...
Biofuel, dairy production and beef in Brazil: competing claims on land use in São Paulo state [0.03%]
巴西的生物燃料、乳制品生产和牛肉：圣保罗州的土地利用之争
André Luiz Monteiro Novo,Kees Jansen,Maja Slingerland et al.
André Luiz Monteiro Novo et al.
This paper examines the competing claims on land use resulting from the expansion of biofuel production. Sugarcane for biofuel drives agrarian change in So Paulo state, which has become the major ethanol-producing region in Brazil. We analy...
Assumptions in the European Union biofuels policy: frictions with experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique [0.03%]
欧盟生物燃料政策中的假设与德国、巴西和莫桑比克的现实之间的摩擦
Jennifer Franco,Les Levidow,David Fig et al.
Jennifer Franco et al.
The biofuel project is an agro-industrial development and politically contested policy process where governments increasingly become global actors. European Union (EU) biofuels policy rests upon arguments about societal benefits of three ma...
Big Sugar in southern Africa: rural development and the perverted potential of sugar/ethanol exports [0.03%]
南部非洲的制糖业：农村发展与食糖/燃料乙醇出口的扭曲潜力
Ben Richardson
Ben Richardson
This paper asks how investment in large-scale sugar cane production has contributed, and will contribute, to rural development in southern Africa. Taking a case study of the South African company Illovo in Zambia, the argument is made that ...
Processes of inclusion and adverse incorporation: oil palm and agrarian change in Sumatra, Indonesia [0.03%]
油棕和农业变迁下的包容与不利融入——印度尼西亚苏门答腊岛的包容过程及不利纳入过程分析
John McCarthy
John McCarthy
Changes in globalised agriculture raise critical questions as rapid agricultural development leads to widespread social and environmental transformation. With increased global demand for vegetable oils and biofuel, in Indonesia the area und...
Fields of dreams: negotiating an ethanol agenda in the Midwest United States [0.03%]
希望的田野：美国中西部地区的乙醇产业议程谈判
Sean Gillon
Sean Gillon
Corn ethanol production is central in the United States' agrofuels initiatives. In this paper I discuss corn ethanol production in Iowa, USA and examine several dynamics: farmers' positions in agrofuel supply chains; struggles around the co...
Gail Hollander
Gail Hollander
New alliances between Brazil and the US for ethanol production, transport, and trade are revitalising and expanding the centuries -old sugarcane plantation system in the Americas. In this paper I adopt the concept of global assemblages, bui...
Forests, food, and fuel in the tropics: the uneven social and ecological consequences of the emerging political economy of biofuels [0.03%]
热带地区的森林、食品和燃料：生物燃料新兴政治经济的不均衡的社会与生态影响
Peter Dauvergne,Kate J Neville
Peter Dauvergne
The global political economy of biofuels emerging since 2007 appears set to intensify inequalities among the countries and rural peoples of the global South. Looking through a global political economy lens, this paper analyses the consequen...
Ben White,Anirban Dasgupta
Ben White
This article considers the global expansion of agrofuels feedstock production from a political economy perspective. It considers and dismisses the environmental and pro-poor developmental justifications attached to agrofuels. To local popul...
The politics of biofuels, land and agrarian change: editors' introduction [0.03%]
生物燃料、土地与农业变迁的政治：编辑导语
Saturnino M Borras Jr
Saturnino M Borras Jr
This introduction frames key questions on biofuels, land and agrarian change within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. It identifies and explains big questions that provide the starting point for the cont...