Unit 5 - Livelihoods and Land

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