Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780367422547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 214 str.

Ben M. McKay; Alberto Alonso-Fradejas; Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete

Opis

Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1 The Biotechnological Agrarian Model in Argentina: fighting against capital within science; 2 Extractive dynamics of agrarian change in Bolivia; 3 Agrarian extractivism in the Brazilian Cerrado; 4 Social reproduction, dispossession, and the gendered workings of agrarian extractivism in Colombia; 5 Agrarian extractivism and sustainable development: the politics of pineapple expansion in Costa Rica; 6 Gender inclusion in the sugarcane production of agrofuels in coastal Ecuador: illusionary promises of rural development within a new agrarian extractivism; 7 Life purging agrarian extractivism in Guatemala: towards a renewable but unlivable future?; 8 Extractive agave and tequila production in Jalisco, Mexico; 9 Forestry extractivism in Uruguay