Contemporary dynamics of agrarian change

Abstract

The contemporary dynamics of agrarian change is being shaped by the neoliberal corporate global food regime dominated by the agro-industrial capital. It has accelerated processes of concentration of land and capital as well as confi guring a new political economy of agrarian change driven by the ‘golden age’ of neoliberal globalisation which may be at a turning point due to the global pandemic of the virus COVID-19. I focus on the following interlinked processes of agrarian change: land grabbing, agriculture’s fi nancialisation, crisis of the peasant economy, and emergence of a precariat. Related issues such as the global food regime, its ecological impact, its contestation by peasant movements