Persistent farmland imaginaries: celebration of fertile soil and the recurrent ignorance of climate

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doi:10.1007/s10460-020-10154-1

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“…However, when it comes to concrete cases of farmland investment and transformations, the role of material aspects has mostly featured only in a loose, more presupposed manner. The papers by Böhme (2020a) and Visser (2020) show that when farmland investments take shape in specific farm sites, optimistic land imaginaries can meet different realities where the materiality of environmental conditions constitute obstacles to the envisaged projects. Böhme depicts how Chinese investors mobilize 'quality imaginaries' of Australian farmland to market fresh milk to affluent, food safety concerned Chinese consumers.…”

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Introduction to symposium ‘Reimagining land: materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation’

Sippel

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2020

Agric Hum Values

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Over the past decade land has again moved to the centre of resource conflicts, agrarian struggles, and competing visions over the future of food and farming. This renewed interest in land necessitates asking the seemingly simple, but pertinent, question ‘what is land?’ To reach a more profound understanding of the uniqueness of land, and what distinguishes land from other resources, this symposium suggests the notion of ‘land imaginaries’ as a crucial lens in the study of current land transformations. Political-economy, and the particular economic, financial, or political interests of various actors involved in land projects do not directly result in, or translate into, outcomes, such as dispossession and enclosure, increased commodification, financialization, and assetization, or mobilization and resistance. All these processes are informed by different imaginaries of land—the underlying understandings, views, and visions of what land is, can, and should be—and associated visions, hopes, and dreams regarding land. Drawing on a variety of case studies from across the world, crossing Global North/South and East/West, and including contemporary and historical instances of land transformation, this symposium addresses the multifaceted ways in which implicit, explicit, and emergent understandings of land shape current land transformations.

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Introduction to symposium ‘Reimagining land: materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation’

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2020

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“…Dies bedeutet im Umkehrschluss, dass auch Investor*innen mit einem eher kurzfristigen Anlagehorizont, wie Private Equity Fonds, ein nicht unerhebliches Maß an Arbeit und Kreativität in die Organisation und Kontrolle von materiellen Produktionsprozessen auf den von ihnen erworbenen Agrarflächen investieren, wie Ouma (2020) am Beispiel Tansanias aufzeigt. Jüngere Forschungen aus Russland und Australien zeigen weiterhin, wie die Konzentration auf bestimmte materielle Faktoren (wie Bodenqualität) zur Vernachlässigung anderer Faktoren (wie Klima) führen kann (Visser 2021) und wie die Abgeschiedenheit Tasmaniens zwar für Marketingzwecke in Wert gesetzt werden, jedoch mit infrastrukturellen und logistischen Herausforderungen verbunden sein kann (Böhme 2021). Auch wenn im Kontext des globalen Land Rushs das Verhältnis zwischen Kapital und Land(-wirtschaft) zunehmend in einer neuen sozialräumlichen Form -nämlich der der Finanzanlageklasse -gerinnt, bleibt die Analyse der Potentiale und Grenzen des Materiellen im kapitalistischen Akkumulationsprozess also essenziell für das Verständnis der gegenwärtig zu beobachtenden Transformationsprozesse von Land.…”

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Bernd Belina ist Professor für Humangeographie an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Er forscht und publiziert zu räumlich ungleicher Entwicklung, zur neuen Wohnungsfrage sowie zu Themen der Politischen Geographie. Andreas Kallert ist Politikwissenschaftler und arbeitet als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Arbeitsgruppe Wirtschaftsgeographie der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind aktuelle Krisen des Finanzsystems, Austerität und die ungleiche Entwicklung ländlicher Räume. Michael Mießner ist Juniorprofessor für Wirtschaftsgeographie an der Universität Trier. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Kritische Geographie ländlicher und regionaler Entwicklung, Gentrifizierungs-und Wohnungsmarktforschung sowie Raumplanung.

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“…Temperature and soil moisture were the main factors that dominated the longest month of significant browning of farmland. The vulnerability of crops results in a smaller suitable growth temperature range than grassland and woodland (Visser, 2021). And it depends on soil moisture (Arshad et al, 2017).…”

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Revealing the dominant factors of vegetation change in global ecosystems

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In the context of climate change, revealing the causes of significant changes in ecosystems will help maintain ecosystem stability and achieve sustainability. However, the dominant influencing factors of different ecosystems in different months on a global scale are not clear. We used Ordinary Least Squares Model and Mann–Kendall test to detect the significant changes (p < 0.05) of ecosystem on a monthly scale from 1981 to 2015. And then multi-source data, residual analysis and partial correlation method was used to distinguish the impact of anthropogenic activities and dominant climate factors. The result showed that: (1) Not all significant green areas in all months were greater than the browning areas. Woodland had a larger greening area than farmland and grassland, except for January, May, and June, and a larger browning area except for September, November, and December. (2) Anthropogenic activities are the leading factors causing significant greening in ecosystems. However, their impact on significant ecosystem browning was not greater than that of climate change on significant ecosystem greening in all months. (3) The main cause of the ecosystem’s significant greening was temperature. Along with temperature, sunshine duration played a major role in the significant greening of the woodland. The main causes of significant farmland greening were precipitation and soil moisture. Temperature was the main factor that dominated the longest month of significant browning of grassland and woodland. Temperature and soil moisture were the main factors that dominated the longest month of significant browning of farmland. Our research reveals ecosystem changes and their dominant factors on a global scale, thereby supporting the sustainable ecosystem management.

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Persistent farmland imaginaries: celebration of fertile soil and the recurrent ignorance of climate

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Introduction to symposium ‘Reimagining land: materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation’

Introduction to symposium ‘Reimagining land: materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation’

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Revealing the dominant factors of vegetation change in global ecosystems

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