on Aotearoa New Zealand
In this space, guest contributions are published. 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.
The contributions can also be found in the “Emerging perspectives” section in “Follow the Money“, as well as in “Frictions” and in “Tanzania“. Submissions are ordered chronologically.
Fonterra has been a constitutive part of the demand regime that has created incentives for dairy farmers – both foreign-financed and domestic – in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand-based scholars Russell Price, Matt Henry, Michael Mouat and Carolyn Morris take the company’s pricing practices as a starting point to engage with the question of how we
can deal with the largely undebated social and political character of money and its derivative forms – capital, interest, dividends etc. in agri-investment contexts, introducing the concept of moneyness. By doing so, they build an important bridge to the entry by Anitra Nelson money. Read more…