Fuel, feed and the corporate restructuring of the food regime

IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Journal of Peasant Studies Pub Date : 2015-01-21 DOI:10.1080/03066150.2014.970534
Joseph Baines
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The agrofuel boom has brought about some of the most significant transformations in the world food system in recent decades. A rich and diverse body of agrarian political economy research has emerged that elucidates the conflicts and redistributional shifts engendered by these transformations. However, less attention has been given to differences within agri-food capital. This paper contributes to the existing literature on agrofuels, by showing how one cluster of agri-food corporations and farmers within the US has benefited from soaring ethanol production at the expense of another cluster. More specifically, I delineate and chart the pecuniary trajectories of two corporate-led distributional coalitions that have vied over the course taken by the US ethanol sector: the ‘Agro-Trader nexus’ and the ‘Animal Processor nexus’. My main finding is that the US ethanol boom has been a vector of redistribution: increasing the earnings of the Agro-Trader nexus and corn growers while reducing the earnings of the Animal Processor nexus and livestock farmers. This finding points to the limits and contradictions of agrofuels capitalism and the acute tensions that exist at the heart of the corporate food regime.
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燃料、饲料和食品制度的企业重组
近几十年来,农业燃料的繁荣给世界粮食系统带来了一些最重大的变化。一个丰富多样的农业政治经济学研究机构已经出现,阐明了这些转变所产生的冲突和再分配转移。然而,对农业食品资本内部差异的关注较少。本文通过展示美国的一个农业食品公司和农民集群如何以牺牲另一个集群为代价,从乙醇生产的飙升中受益,对现有的农业燃料文献做出了贡献。更具体地说,我描绘并绘制了两个企业主导的分配联盟的经济轨迹,这两个联盟在美国乙醇行业所采取的过程中相互竞争:“农业贸易商关系”和“动物加工者关系”。我的主要发现是,美国的乙醇热潮一直是再分配的载体:增加了农业贸易商和玉米种植者的收入,同时减少了动物加工商和牲畜农民的收入。这一发现指出了农业燃料资本主义的局限性和矛盾,以及存在于企业食品制度核心的尖锐紧张。
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期刊介绍: A leading journal in the field of rural politics and development, The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) provokes and promotes critical thinking about social structures, institutions, actors and processes of change in and in relation to the rural world. It fosters inquiry into how agrarian power relations between classes and other social groups are created, understood, contested and transformed. JPS pays special attention to questions of ‘agency’ of marginalized groups in agrarian societies, particularly their autonomy and capacity to interpret – and change – their conditions.
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