Fields of gold : financing the global land rush
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Fields of gold : financing the global land rush
（Cornell series on land : new perspectives on territory, development, and environment / edited by Wendy Wolford, Nancy Lee Peluso, and Michael Goldman）
Cornell University Press, 2020
- : hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-202) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in two of the most popular investment locations, the US and Brazil, looking at the implications of financiers' acquisition of land and control over resources for rural livelihoods and economic justice.
At the heart of Fields of Gold is a tension between efforts to transform farmland into a new financial asset class, and land's physical and social properties, which frequently obstruct that transformation. But what makes the book unique among the growing body of work on the global land grab is Fairbairn's interest in those acquiring land, rather than those affected by land acquisitions. Fairbairn's work sheds ethnographic light on the actors and relationships-from Iowa to Manhattan to Sao Paulo-that have helped to turn land into an attractive financial asset class.
Thanks to generous funding from UC Santa Cruz, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Farmland Investment Comes of Age
2. Farmland Values
3. Material Difficulties
4. Foreign Politics
Conclusion
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