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{"title":"Capitalist Development or Super-exploitation? Exploring Divergent Patterns of Surplus Appropriation along Coffee Commodity Chains","authors":"Karl Wienhold,&nbsp;Luís Silveira Santos,&nbsp;Luis F. Goulao","doi":"10.1111/dech.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In 1997, John Talbot reported that the liberalization of the global coffee trade had led to diverging trends in retail and wholesale prices, resulting in a shift of surplus value from farmers to downstream firms. This trend has persisted over subsequent decades amid expanded production, intensified farming, greater consumer product differentiation and deepening farmer poverty. This article investigates these seemingly contradictory processes based on the hypothesis of dual commodity chains for mild and non-mild coffee types, given their distinct production systems, labour processes and consumption formats. In the study, surplus value appropriated at each node of the respective chains is isolated and expressed in constant local purchasing power terms from 1990 to 2019. Results indicate processes of downstream surplus transfer from farmers in both chains. For non-mild coffee, surplus is passed on to consumers, coinciding with expanded production. By contrast, mild coffee shows a surplus transfer of double the magnitude, appropriated at downstream nodes, alongside a slight decline in global output. This pattern is interpreted as the super-exploitation of mild coffee farming labour by transnational merchant capital, driven by the unique characteristics of mild coffee farmers as petty commodity producers.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"57 1","pages":"130-161"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146216923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two Regimes of Waste and Value: ‘Post-Disaster’ Landscapes in a New India","authors":"Vasudha Chhotray,&nbsp;David Singh","doi":"10.1111/dech.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post-disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new-normal can be imposed in the aftermath of a catastrophe by indomitable state–capital alliances. Insidious ideas of entrepreneurship and a muscular Hindutva-tinged liberalization have served as the main tropes of post-disaster recovery and management interventions in India over the past two decades. The article demonstrates how these post-disaster landscapes, as seen in the cases of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake and 1999 Odisha super-cyclone, can be understood through regimes of waste and value, which redefine the meanings of space and nature. At their core, these regimes rely on the purposive use of institutions, laws and discourses by powerful actors at multiple levels. The article suggests that the post-disaster landscape offers a unique perspective into the everyday environmental authoritarianism unfolding throughout India today.</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"57 1","pages":"27-49"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.70038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146216922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives","authors":"Jessica Dempsey","doi":"10.1111/dech.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Academics have spent decades analysing the harms and failures of market and finance-led biodiversity policy. Yet, even though ‘selling nature to save it’ looks less like the promised green capitalism and more like a decades-long bake sale in that its efforts are small, piecemeal and rely on copious amounts of cheap capital, the approach remains dominant. Adopting the term ‘Wall Street Conservation’, this article asks why it remains hegemonic, in spite of all the failures. Ruth Wilson Gilmore's potent approach to understanding entrenched systems like the prison–industrial complex provides a critical framework for this inquiry: if Wall Street Conservation is not solving the problem it is meant to, what kinds of problems <i>is</i> it solving, and for whom?</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"57 1","pages":"3-26"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146223912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Political Economy of Renewables Capitalism: Moving beyond ‘Climate Change’ vs ‘System Change’","authors":"Murat Arsel,&nbsp;Alfredo Saad-Filho","doi":"10.1111/dech.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is a growing tendency to argue that the capitalist mode of production is fundamentally incompatible with climate stability and that ‘system change’ is needed to prevent apocalyptic ‘climate change’. This position overstates capitalism's dependence on fossil fuels. Rather than fossil fuels per se, capitalism requires abundant, secure and predictable energy sources. Furthermore, capitalism cannot postpone the stabilization of the earth's climate indefinitely, as doing so threatens core systemic imperatives: the generation and accumulation of profits and reproduction of capitalism across space and time. The growth in renewable energy generation could bring about a transition from ‘fossil capitalism’ to ‘renewables capitalism’. While this could potentially eliminate the ecological risks of climate change, it would most likely exacerbate existing socio-economic inequalities and environmental injustices associated with increased extraction and consumption of natural resources. The role of counter-hegemonic movements remains crucial for the creation of a democratic and equitable system of production and distribution.</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"56 4-5","pages":"619-644"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145730443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decarbonizing Agriculture and Beyond: What Is at Stake?","authors":"Arindam Banerjee,&nbsp;Anirban Dasgupta","doi":"10.1111/dech.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article argues that an effective rethinking of agriculture in the light of the climate emergency should aim to achieve more than decarbonization in agricultural production. The multidimensional ecological crisis precipitated by industrial agriculture can only be addressed through an integrated approach that seeks to restore the ecological balance through sustainable production practices. However, such a programme of reversing the ecological footprint generates its own tensions. Agriculture will continue to be a critical source of food and livelihoods which will necessitate trade-offs regarding the sector's role in restoring and maintaining ecological balance. Fundamental institutional change will be needed to reconcile the ecological regeneration process (in agriculture) with the goals of food production and livelihood provision. The existing political economy of corporate agrifood systems, the neoliberal state and contemporary agrarian social structures could create obstacles to such change. A concerted programme of public action will therefore be required to move forward.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"56 4-5","pages":"755-782"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Socially Necessary Green Development in India","authors":"Rohit Azad,&nbsp;Shouvik Chakraborty","doi":"10.1111/dech.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Inequality and climate change are intricately linked, both in terms of the cause and the effect of climate change. The insight that inequality in emissions goes hand in hand with rising socio-economic inequality gives the impression that this is a straightforward, positive relationship, giving rise to the assumption that a mere redistribution of income in favour of the poor and disadvantaged will reverse the climate crisis. Focusing on the Indian context, this article shows that this may be an erroneous assumption. A redistribution of income in favour of those at the lower end of the population may actually lead to higher emissions per capita — the carbon inequality paradox. However, this does not mean that a choice has to be made between emissions and equality. While energy may be required for an egalitarian development, the source of that energy need not be dirty. The authors argue that a green energy transition is vital for any progressive fight against the twin problems of rising emissions and inequality. They propose a green development programme which, as well as promoting this energy transition, encourages socially necessary consumption through state-led expenditure programmes while socially unnecessary expenses of the elite are reined in through aggressive direct and indirect taxes.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"56 4-5","pages":"928-956"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development Rethought or Forgotten? A Review of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Report 2024","authors":"Baptiste Albertone,&nbsp;Tin Hinane El Kadi,&nbsp;Amir Lebdioui","doi":"10.1111/dech.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.70030","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;UNCTAD, &lt;i&gt;Trade and Development Report 2024: Rethinking Development in the Age of Discontent&lt;/i&gt;. Geneva: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 2024. xiv + 190 pp&lt;/b&gt;. https://unctad.org/publication/trade-and-development-report-2024&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fifty years later, we are living in a new crisis in global development. Only 15 per cent of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are currently on track, with some indicators even having dipped below their 2015 baselines (UN, &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). As UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres remarked, ‘Instead of leaving no one behind, we risk leaving the SDGs behind’ (Guterres, &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). Since 2015, the annual financing gap of the SDGs has increased by 60 per cent, from US$ 2.5 trillion to US$ 4 trillion in 2024 (OECD, &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;; UNCTAD, &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). The COVID-19 pandemic proved to be a critical stress test for a system already struggling to manage multiple and overlapping structural trends that had been building since the 2008 global financial crisis. These include rising debt burdens, widening inequalities within and across countries, a slowdown in international trade and a weak investment climate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These challenges lie at the core of UNCTAD's historic mandate, which is why, before engaging with our critique of its &lt;i&gt;Trade and Development Report 2024: Rethinking Development in the Age of Discontent&lt;/i&gt; (henceforth TDR 2024 or the Report), it is important to first understand and situate the unique and politically significant role that the institution as the principal body advocating for the economic interests of developing nations plays within the UN system. Established in 1964 amid intense debates over the inequities of the post-war international economic order, UNCTAD was created largely at the initiative of countries from the Global South to provide them with a stronger, more unified voice in global economic governance. Unlike more technocratic bodies, UNCTAD was explicitly designed as a platform for multilateral negotiations among countries at different stages of development. It aimed to problematize questions of trade, finance, investment and technology from a development perspective — areas frequently sidelined by established institutions dominated by advanced economies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a result, UNCTAD has been instrumental in advancing analytical work on a range of issues central to development, including the structural disadvantages facing commodity-dependent economies, barriers to technology access, the need for fairer trade rules, the dangers of capital account liberalization, pressures on sovereign borrowers and the importance of industrial policy and policy space for developing countries. In doing so, UNCTAD has consistently served as a counterpoint to more orthodox, market-led approaches favoured and advanced by institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UNCTAD's analysis and policy recommendations have traditionally been grounded in a structurali","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"56 4-5","pages":"1084-1110"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.70030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Financialization of and by International Organizations: The United Nations and the Global Climate Finance Architecture","authors":"Ewa Karwowski","doi":"10.1111/dech.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This contribution uses a discussion of the global climate finance architecture to put forward and illustrate a conceptualization of the financialization of and by international organizations. It highlights four channels through which the phenomenon operates: (1) the adoption of financial logics; (2) the advancement of financial innovation; (3) the embracing of financial accumulation; and (4) the direct financialization of member states’ policies and citizens’ lives. As consequence, four main types of financialization can be identified that are promoted within and by international organizations: within intergovernmental fora, these are the financialization of policy narratives, meaning the redefinition of policy challenges as questions of financial investment, and of standards; while international organizations, in their function as governing and administrative bodies, can drive financialization by turning public goods into the basis for financial assets, and through the direct representation of financial interests.</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"56 4-5","pages":"897-927"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Conversation with Marc Wuyts","authors":"Hazel Gray","doi":"10.1111/dech.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.70021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"56 4-5","pages":"1025-1047"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation","authors":"Neil Brenner,&nbsp;Swarnabh Ghosh","doi":"10.1111/dech.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article challenges prevailing approaches to urban sustainability by reconceptualizing capitalist urbanization as a planetary process of geometabolic escalation. Hegemonic visions of sustainable cities render invisible the non-city sociometabolic preconditions and consequences of urban life under capitalism. Our dissident theorization brings to the foreground such ‘hidden abodes’ of capitalist urbanization and their role in the enclosure, operationalization and degradation of the planetary biosphere. The fossil-based metabolic regime of capital, consolidated in the 1870s and planetarized during what this article terms the ‘Long Intensification’, has transformed cities into strategic nodes within a fossil-powered formation of the capitalist urban fabric. This unevenly extended infrastructural matrix escalates the throughput of matter/energy while discharging toxic waste into the biosphere and generating planetary waves of social dispossession. The analysis reveals the dialectical relationship between throughput ecologies (of metabolic intensification) and exhaustion ecologies (of socioenvironmental destruction) that underpins this process. As carbon-intensive patterns of fixed capital are locked in and extended, cities become ‘blazing bonfires’ that metabolize colossal quantities of energy while projecting their destructive socioenvironmental impacts onto operational landscapes of appropriation and sacrifice zones of ruination. Meanwhile, rather than facilitating transitions away from fossil fuels, renewable energy has primarily supplemented expanding relays of fossil energy production and consumption, further ratcheting up capital's spatial metabolism of plunder, productivity and pollution. Urban sustainability programmes frequently serve to legitimize new forms of eco-apartheid, creating protected enclaves for privileged populations while preserving imperial circuits of extraction and waste. Drawing inspiration from Mike Davis, the article navigates between analytic despair and utopian possibility to envision <i>alter</i>-metabolisms that might interrupt capital's destructive planetary trajectory without succumbing to the false hopes associated with ‘renewables capitalism’. This article proposes a radically relational, anti-capitalist reconfiguration of sustainability politics, grounded in degrowth strategies, anti-imperialist sociometabolic relations, democratic control of infrastructures and programmes of ecological repair.</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"56 4-5","pages":"668-728"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}