Agrofuels capitalism: a view from political economy
Agrofuels capitalism: a view from political economy
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农业燃料资本主义：政治经济学的视角
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
A. Dasgupta
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作者：
B. White;A. Dasgupta
本文从政治经济学的角度考虑了农业燃料原料生产的全球扩张。它考虑并驳回了农业燃料所具有的环境和扶贫发展的理由。对于当地居民和直接生产者来说，作物在遥远地方作为燃料、食品、化妆品或其他最终用途的具体目的地可能不如对其土地的（直接或间接）占用形式以及他们作为生产者插入或排除在全球商品链中的形式更感兴趣。全球对农业燃料和粮食的需求正在刺激企业掠夺和征用土地以及将小农纳入合同生产的新形式（或旧形式的复兴）。本文借鉴了最近关于农业燃料扩张的研究以及关于农业转型和农业资本主义的政治经济学文献，提出了“农业燃料资本主义”是否与其他形式的资本主义农业单一作物生产有本质上的不同，以及所涉及的农业转型是否需要新的分析工具的问题。
This article considers the global expansion of agrofuels feedstock production from a political economy perspective. It considers and dismisses the environmental and pro-poor developmental justifications attached to agrofuels. To local populations and direct producers, the specific destination of the crop as fuel, food, cosmetics or other final uses in faraway places is probably of less interest than the forms of (direct or indirect) appropriation of their land and the forms of their insertion or exclusion as producers in global commodity chains. Global demand for both agrofuels and food is stimulating new forms (or the resurgence of old forms) of corporate land grabbing and expropriation, and of incorporation of smallholders in contracted production. Drawing both on recent studies on agrofuels expansion and on the political economy literature on agrarian transition and capitalism in agriculture, this article raises the question whether ‘agrofuels capitalism’ is in any way essentially different from other forms of capitalist agrarian monocrop production, and in turn whether the agrarian transitions involved require new tools of analysis.