Foreign investments in New Zealand’s agricultural sector and their regulation, 2001–2017

Klinge, Tobias J.

doi:10.1080/14747731.2020.1795427

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“…At the time of our interview one of the cluster farms was being converted to organic, which further restricted the use of palm kernel, and the firm had just acquired an organic dairy processor in 2. On the details of this process and some of its practical intricacies, see Klinge (2018).…”

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Farming as Financial Asset

Ouma

2020

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Since the global financial crisis, the world has seen a stark rise in financial investment in farming and agricultural production. Indeed, finance has been identified as one of the main causes of the so-called 'global land rush'. In a world with a growing population that needs to be fed, the financial returns from agriculture are sold as safe bets. The debate that this has prompted has been frequently alarmist, with financiers blamed for rising land prices, corporate enclosures, the dispossession of smallholder farmers and the expansion of large-scale industrial agriculture.<br><br>Stefan Ouma speaks to these concerns via an ethnographic journey through the agrifocused asset management industry. His penetrating analysis of case studies taken from New Zealand and Tanzania allows him to put global finance 'in place', bringing into view the flesh-and-blood institutions, globe spanning social relations, everyday practices and place-based value struggles that are often absent in broad-brushed narratives on the 'financialization of agriculture'. The book closes with a key question for the Anthropocene: which form of finance forwhich kind of food future?

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Farming as Financial Asset

Ouma

2020

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“…In the first case study, we analyze the controversy around institutional investment in farmland, focusing on the Canada Pension Plan's large-scale purchase of Saskatchewan land in 2014. This case highlights political conflicts over the financialization of farmland, with parallels to similar tensions in other Global North countries (Sippel and Weldon, 2021;Fairbairn, 2020;Klinge, 2021). The second case study examines conflicts over the termination of government-run community pastures, the most significant policy change in the prairie ranching sector in a generation, with implications for rancher livelihoods, environmental conservation, and access to land for recreational and cultural purposes.…”

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“Land imaginaries” in Western Canada: (financial) neoliberalism, agrarianism, and the contemporary politics of agricultural land

Beingessner

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Wendimu

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This article examines contemporary political controversies over agricultural land in the prairie region of Canada. We suggest that contemporary land politics reflect elements of continuity and change in a distinctive “land imaginary” connected to the region’s history and recent restructuring. While neoliberalism, and more recently, financialization, have been the main drivers of restructuring in recent decades, certain strands of agrarianism continue to shape social relations in the agricultural sector. We present three case studies, the first of which examines the controversy over institutional investment in farmland, focusing on the Canada Pension Plan’s large-scale purchase of Saskatchewan land. The second case study examines conflicts over the deregulation of government-run community pastures, with implications for the ranching sector, environmental conservation, and the future of native prairie. Our third case study focuses on the proposed sale and land-use conversion of government-owned pasture land in Alberta, dubbed “Potatogate”. We examine the role of farmers, ranchers, governments, NGOs, and private interests in shaping debates over land ownership and use. We argue that these conflicts reveal a tension between (financial) neoliberalism and agrarian arguments and values, with significant differences across agricultural sub-sectors.

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“…As flagged earlier, colleagues in North America and Germany have recently made more robust efforts to trace institutional farmland ownership. Further building on the work of my collaborator Tobias Klinge (Klinge, 2020), my team and myself at the University of Bayreuth will soon be sharing financial ownership data for Aotearoa New Zealand on the website www.institutionallandscapes.org.…”

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Agri-investment scholars of the world unite! The finance-driven land rush as boundary object

Ouma

2022

Dialogues in Human Geography

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This response addresses several of the issues raised by the commentaries on my book Farming as Financial Asset – Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes (2020). Reflecting upon the intentions and limitations of the book, it makes a call for treating agri-investments to which scholars contribute from different geographical, theoretical, and methodological angles. In detail, it engages with the question of how farmland investments relate to other ‘asset classes’ in terms of the practical (and political) problem of institutional investibility, the material and human dimensions of institutional landscapes, the ownership question, as well as the challenge to write a book that has a global historical outlook and offers situated accounts at the same time. It also engages with questions of comparativism, methodology, and the political implications of an opening-the-black box approach.

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Foreign investments in New Zealand’s agricultural sector and their regulation, 2001–2017

Cited by 5 publications

References 60 publications

Farming as Financial Asset

Farming as Financial Asset

“Land imaginaries” in Western Canada: (financial) neoliberalism, agrarianism, and the contemporary politics of agricultural land

Agri-investment scholars of the world unite! The finance-driven land rush as boundary object

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