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Global Strategies of Firms and the Financialization of Agriculture

In: Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains. Estelle Biénabe, Denis Loeillet, Alian Rival (eds). (2017). Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands. 353 pp. 978-94-024-1015-0

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  • Anseeuw, Ward
  • Roda, Jean-Marc
  • Ducastel, Antoine
  • Kamaruddin, Norfaryanti

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A sustained growth of investment in the agricultural sector is being observed the world over. Some of these investment strategies, which rely on financial mechanisms such as private equity or shareholding structures, directly involve the financialization of agriculture. On the one hand, this financialization is a consequence of the new trends of globalization of the agricultural sector and value chains, more particularly of the need for capitalization and risk management. On the other hand, it in turn reshapes the sector and its value chains. The first part of this chapter intends to explore these dynamics by describing this process of financialization in practice based on two case studies, one in Africa and the other in Asia. The chapter then presents the drivers of financialization, its real spread into agriculture, as well as its implications in terms of integration and advanced verticalization, and of corporatization of agriculture. These dynamics form the basis for new issues concerning the structuring of the sector and its capacity to act towards sustainable development.

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  • Anseeuw, Ward & Roda, Jean-Marc & Ducastel, Antoine & Kamaruddin, Norfaryanti, 2017. "Global Strategies of Firms and the Financialization of Agriculture," Selected Book Chapters, in: Estelle Biénabe & Denis Loeillet & Alain Rival (ed.), Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains. Estelle Biénabe, Denis Loeillet, Alian Rival (eds). (2017). Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands. 353 pp, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 25, pages 321-337, CIRAD, Forest department, UPR40.
    • Handle: RePEc:epf:ecchap:10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1016-7_25
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    1. Mechiche-Alami, Altaaf & Yagoubi, Jihad & Nicholas, Kimberly A., 2021. "Agricultural land acquisitions unlikely to address the food security needs of African countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 141(C).
    2. Hanying Qi, 2019. "A New Literature Review on Financialization," Journal of Accounting, Business and Finance Research, Scientific Publishing Institute, vol. 7(2), pages 40-50.

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