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Author:   Ben Cousins (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) ,  Saturnino M. Borras Jr. (International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague) ,  Sérgio Sauer (University of Brasilia, Brazil) ,  Jingzhong Ye
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.335kg
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9780367664114

ISBN 10:   0367664119
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. BRICS, middle-income countries (MICs), and global agrarian transformations: internal dynamics, regional trends, and international implications Ben Cousins, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Sérgio Sauer and Jingzhong Ye 2. Exporting contradictions: the expansion of South African agrarian capital within Africa Ruth Hall and Ben Cousins 3. The ambiguous stance of Brazil as a regional power: piloting a course between commodity-based surpluses and national development Sérgio Sauer, Moisés V. Balestro and Sergio Schneider 4. Agrarian trajectories in Argentina and Brazil: multilatin seed firms and the South American soybean chain Clara Craviotti 5. Control grabbing and value-chain agriculture: BRICS, MICs and Bolivia’s soy complex Ben M. McKay 6. The agrifood question and rural development dynamics in Brazil and China: towards a protective ‘countermovement’ Fabiano Escher, Sergio Schneider and Jingzhong Ye 7. Chinese land grabs in Brazil? Sinophobia and foreign investments in Brazilian soybean agribusiness Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira 8. Land control and crop booms inside China: implications for how we think about the global land rush Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Juan Liu, Zhen Hu, Hua Li, Chunyu Wang, Yunan Xu, Jennifer C. Franco and Jingzhong Ye 9. Holding corporations from middle countries accountable for human rights violations: a case study of the Vietnamese company investment in Cambodia Ratha Thuon 10. Framing China’s role in global land deal trends: why Southeast Asia is key Elyse N. Mills

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Ben Cousins holds a DST/NRF Research Chair at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Saturnino M. Borras, Jr. is Professor of Agrarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands; Adjunct Professor in the College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) at China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing, PR China; and a Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Sergio Sauer is Professor for the Post Graduate Program for Environment and Rural Development in the Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. He has a research scholarship from CNPq, Brasilia, Brazil. Jingzhong Ye is Professor and Dean of the COHD at CAU, Beijing, PR China.

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