Cargando…
Farming as financial asset : global finance and the making of institutional landscapes /
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". Agriculture and land represent safe investment opportunities...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Newcastle upon Tyne :
Agenda Publishing,
2020.
|
| Colección: | Economic transformations (Newcastle upon Tyne, England)
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Chapter 1 Introduction:
- Placing this book's approach
- Institutional landscapes and the financial asset character of agriculture
- Grounding agri-investment chains
- A tale of two frontiers
- Producing knowledge about institutional landscapes
- Structure of the book
- Chapter 2 Optic: How do we study the finance-farming nexus?
- Whither financialization?
- Towards an operational account of institutional landscapes
- Financial keywords under scrutiny
- Financial "markets"
- Asset
- Investor
- Private equity
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3 History: How old is the finance-farming nexus?
- Frontiers into assets: imperial landscapes and the quite early globalization of finance
- From individual to institutional asset: the rise of farmland investment thinking in the United States and United Kingdom
- Finance from farming
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Numbers: What we know (and do not know) about finance-gone-farming
- The basic data problem
- Macro-trends
- The flesh-and-blood institutions behind finance-gone-farming
- Where capital likes (not) to go
- From hype to soberness: the AG investment space, 2008-2018
- The merits and limits of public records
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5 States: How are foreign investments in farming regulated and accounted for?
- Grappling with foreign investment regimes in Aotearoa New Zealand and Tanzania
- A country built on "foreign investment"
- From money as an outcome to money as the basis of development
- Examining the rise of institutional landscapes in Aotearoa New Zealand and Tanzania
- Thick institutional landscapes
- Thin institutional landscapes
- The politics of capital placements in agriculture
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6 Value(s): Why has the road to "greener pastures" been so bumpy?
- Rethinking assets and assetization: a moral economy perspective
- Legitimization struggles: from within
- Internal barriers to assetization
- Responses from industry players
- Legitimization struggles: outside forces
- External barriers to assetization: "society" fights back
- Responses from industry players
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7 Delegation: What happens inside the agri-investment chain?
- Inside the placement calculus
- The investment structure: the glue that holds everything together
- The deal cycle for capital placements in farming
- Controversies along the chain
- The investment horizon
- Leveraging as usual?
- Fees
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8 Grounding: What does assetization look like from below?
- The work of institutional landscapes I: diagnostic moments in agri-investment chains
- Securing the future (Case 3)
- Command and control farming, and its limits (Case 5)