The agrifood question and rural development dynamics in Brazil and China: towards a protective ‘countermovement’

BRICS varieties of capitalism and food regime reordering: A comparative institutional analysis

“…The findings about a contradictory role of the state in the BRIC(S) countries' rural and agrifood issues thus reinforce Escher, Schneider, and Ye's (2018) thesis that the politics of Polanyi's (2000) ‘double movement’ is a dialectical process involving power relations and institutional mediations, whose depth and direction must be evaluated, in light of Gramsci's (1992) notion of ‘balance of forces’, as a struggle for hegemony. The ambiguous and shifting political responses to the challenges that arise in times of crises express the contradictions and struggles for the representation of interests of rural classes and class fractions in the state apparatus and the institutionalization of ideas in the implementation of agrifood policies.…”

Local-global linkages in the food regime: global history and the internationalization of Brazilian agribusiness

“…The globe is undergoing an agrarian transformation that is taking place across disparate spaces. The driving factors behind these transformations are many: commodification and globalization of the agribusiness (Escher 2018); economic changes in the international food markets (Turzi 2011); strategic intervention of states in the agricultural sectors (Hopewell 2016); and conflictive land governance, -especially in developing regions (Scoones et al 2018). As such, I argue that while these different elements are indeed present in the global agrarian transformation, they also inevitably catalyze transformation at the local level, evident in actions such as coalition-formation.…”

Geographies of meatification: an emerging Asian meat complex

“…They furthermore note an absence of research dealing with the intra-regional dynamics of agrarian transformations where BRICS are involved (Cousins et al 2018, 2) as well as 'few systematic empirical and theoretical studies of specific regional sites as a unit of analysis' (Cousins et al 2018, 9). In this context the role of China has received much attention (Belesky & Lawrence, 2018;Oliviera & Schneider 2016;McMichael 2000;Escher, Schneider & Ye 2018) while the role of other BRICS countries, and indeed other 'South-South' connections beyond BRICS, has received less attention in critical scholarship. Existing work points to rising influence of South-South connections in flows of agro-food commodities (Gray & Gills 2016).…”