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Unit 5 - Livelihoods and Land

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Unit Introduction

Unit Title: 

Unit 5 - Livelihoods and Land

This unit was delivered by Dr. Mehroosh Tak, RVC

Unit Description

The aim of the lecture is to unpack the interconnections between globalised industrial livestock productions food regimes, land and livelihoods of farmers. We do so by reviewing empirical evidence on poverty implications for farmers who engage in globalised livestock production systems. Particular attention is paid to power dynamics and conditionalities extended on farmers by such food regimes. Further, we discuss land use change due to industrialisation of livestock systems. Finally, potential policy implications of industrialisation on land use change and poverty are highlighted.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the lecture the students will be able to:

  1. Understand the impact of industrial livestock production on farmer livelihoods in LMICs
  2. Recognise land tenure implications of globalised livestock production systems
  3. Draw connections between global commodity chains and livelihoods of farmers


Core Reading

1. Susanne Gura (2009) Corporate livestock farming: A threat to global food security, Third World Resurgence No. 223 (Mar 2009) http://www.fao.org/tempref/AG/Reserved/DAD-Net/gura_TWR_april09.pdf

2. Susanne Gura (2008), 'Industrial livestock production and its impact on smallholders in developing countries'.  Report to the League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development, www.pastoralpeoples.org http://www.environmentportal.in/files/gura_ind_livestock_prod.pdf Pages 5 to 20, Sections 1 to 4. 

3. John Sender and  Deborah Johnston (2003) Searching for a Weapon of Mass Production in Rural Africa: Unconvincing Arguments for Land Reform https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0366.2004.00075.x 

  

Additional Readings

1. Saule Burkitbayeva  and Johan Swinnen, 2018, Smallholder agriculture in transition economies, Journal of Agrarian Change

2. Yu Huang, 2015, Can Capitalist Farms Defeat Family Farms? The Dynamics of Capitalist Accumulation in Shrimp Aquaculture in South China, Journal of Agrarian Change

3. Kristian Sagun, 2016, Blue Revolution in a Commodity Frontier: Ecologies of Aquaculture and Agrarian Change in Laguna Lake, Philippines, Journal of Agrarian Change

4. GRAIN report, 2019, Indian Dairy Under Threat From New Trade Deals

5. Susanne Gura, 2009, Aquaculture and its Genetic Resources: Corporations versus Communities. Can Small Scale Fishing Communities benefit from Current Developments? International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) https://www.icsf.net/images/reports/pdf/english/issue_10/10_all.pdf

6. AFSA, GRAIN, 2020,Land grabs at gunpoint: Thousands of families are being violently evicted from their farms to make way for foreign-owned plantations in Kiryandongo, Uganda https://grain.org/en/article/6518-land-grabs-at-gunpoint-thousands-of-families-are-being-violently-evicted-from-their-farms-to-make-way-for-foreign-owned-plantations-in-kiryandongo-uganda

7. Alliance Against Industrial Plantations in West and Central Africa, 2019, Communities in Africa fight back against the land grab for palm oil, https://grain.org/en/article/6324-communities-in-africa-fight-back-against-the-land-grab-for-palm-oil#:~:text=Multinational%20companies%2C%20in%20collaboration%20with,lands%20for%20oil%20palm%20plantations.

8. Friedmann, H., 2004. ‘Feeding the Empire: The Pathologies of Globalized Agriculture’. In The Socialist Register 2005, eds L. Panitch and C. Leys, 124–43. London: The Merlin Press https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5828/2724

9. Saturnino M. Borras Jr , Cristóbal Kay , Sergio Gómez & John Wilkinson (2012): Land grabbing and global capitalist accumulation: key features in Latin America, Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 33:4, 402-416  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2012.745394

10. Evelyn Mathias (2012). Livestock out of balance: From asset to liability in the course of the livestock revolution. League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development, Ober-Ramstadt, Germany. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.468.8404&rep=rep1&type=pdf


Lecture Slides

Here are the lecture slides (link) for the 5th lecture.