This website offers space to fellow researchers, who discuss emerging perspectives on the making and unmaking of (agrarian) institutional landscapes worldwide. If you are interested in contributing, please contact me directly!
In this space, a particular focus will be put on emerging perspectives in a fast-changing field, where sometimes assumptions and statements made in the past hold no longer true in the present; where just another crisis or government regulation has crashed the dreams of investors; where suddenly AG tech and not farmland is heralded as the most promising new “asset class”, or where methodological advances now suddenly allow us to account in more granular ways about trends and investment footprints in the ‘AG space’. It is also a chance for scholars to revisit their own (past) research in light of recent advances in debates and research findings. We will offer fellow researchers exposure on the platform, as well as graphic design services in case you would like to contribute figures or photos. In this space, guest contributions are published.
Submissions are ordered chronologically. They can also be found in the “Emerging perspectives” section in “Follow the Money“, as well as in “Frictions“, in “Aotearoa New Zealand” and in “Tanzania“.
Anthropologist Julia Sizek’s account underlines the entangled nature of land and water speculation, with the Californian state playing a central role in this.
Read moreAndré Magnan and Annette Aurélie Desmarais show why obtaining and using land titles to study of changing farmland ownership patterns on the Canadian prairies hasn’t been easy.
Read moreAnitra Nelson engages with the social character of money, an “object” largely unquestioned in investment discourses.
Read moreCarla Gras and Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti revisit their work on agri-investments in Latin America.
Read morePartly building on his work in Tanzania, Gideon Tups helps us make sense of the keyword “patient capital”, which has become a buzzword in development finance.
Read moreSociologists Loka Ashwood and Phil Howard engage with the problem of tracing ownership relations along the agri-investment chain.
Read more‘Follow the losses’: Tijo Salverda discusses the temporal dimension of agri-investments for a case in Zambia.
Read moreSamuel Frederico discusses the challenge of ‘following the money’ in the case of Brazilian agri-investments.
Read moreWe are happy to announce that several colleagues from around the world have agreed to contribute to our guest writers’ sections.
Read moreWe are online! Check out our website and guest writer section.
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