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Author:   Saturnino Borras Jr. (Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands) ,  Philip McMichael (Cornell University, USA) ,  Ian Scoones (University of Sussex, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.910kg
ISBN:  

9780415613200

ISBN 10:   0415613205
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   24 March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change: Editors’ Introduction 2. Agrofuels Capitalism: A View From Political Economy 3. Agrofuels in The Food Regime 4. Forests, Food, and Fuel in the Tropics: The Uneven Social and Ecological Consequences of the Emerging Political Economy of Biofuels 5. Assumptions in the European Union Biofuels Policy: Frictions with Experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique 6. Power is Sweet: Sugarcane in the Global Ethanol Assemblage 7. Fields of Dreams: Negotiating an Ethanol Agenda in the Midwest United States 8. Biofuels in Brazil: Debates and Impacts 9. Biofuel, Dairy Production and Beef in Brazil: Competing Claims on Land use in São Paulo State 10. Agrofuel Policies in Brazil: Paradigmatic and Territorial Disputes 11. Processes of Inclusion and Adverse Incorporation: Oil Palm and Agrarian Change in Sumatra, Indonesia 12. The Biofuel Connection – Transnational Activism and the Palm Oil Boom 13. The Political Ecology of Jatropha Plantations for Biodiesel in Tamil Nadu, India 14. Over the Heads of Local People: Consultation, Consent, and Recompense in Large-Scale Land Deals for Biofuels Projects in Africa 15. Big Sugar in Southern Africa: Rural Development and the Perverted Potential of Sugar/Ethanol Exports 16. The Politics of Jatropha-Based Biofuels in Kenya: Convergence and Divergence Among NGOs, Donors, Government Officials and Farmers

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Saturnino M. Borras Jr. is Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies at Saint Mary's University, Canada, an Adjunct Professor at China Agricultural University, Beijing, and a Fellow of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI) and California-based Food First. He is joining the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, Netherlands in January 2011. Philip McMichael is a Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. His research focuses on food regimes, agrarian movements, and climate change. Key publications include: New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (co-edited, 2005), Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (2008), and Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (2010). Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. He has a background in agricultural ecology and his interdisciplinary research links the natural and social sciences and focuses on the relationships between science and technology, local knowledge and livelihoods and the politics of policy processes. He is currently co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex and Joint Convenor of the Future Agricultures Consortium.

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