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Sustainability assessment methodologies such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) are becoming increasingly prevalent in the evaluation of agri-food value-chains. Proponents of such assessment methodologies argue that they offer a factual and ro…
Conceptualizing Contract Farming in the Global Land Grabbing Debate Open
Contract farming, a system of vertical coordination between a grower and a buyer, maintains an ambivalent position in the global land grabbing literature. It appears variously as a form of land grabbing itself, as a potentially inclusive a…
Conserving traditional wisdom in a commodified landscape: Unpacking brand Ayurveda Open
As Ayurveda continues to gain global recognition as a sanctioned system of health care, the essence of Ayurveda's identity has become prey to commoditization and commodification for commercial undertakings in the holistic health milieu of …
Twenty‐five years of<i>Living Under Contract</i>: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world Open
The expansion of contract farming schemes through regions of the developing world in the era of the globalization of agriculture raises questions that are central to the study of agrarian political economy. Contract farming has extended th…
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Autonomy and repeasantization: Conceptual, analytical, and methodological problems Open
“Autonomy,” as a desirable state, is a notion often used by food sovereignty‐oriented farmer movements and scholars studying repeasantization. The term is predominantly used rather casually, relying on presumed meanings, but van der Ploeg'…
Living under value chains: The new distributive contract and arguments about unequal bargaining power Open
In the 1980s and 1990s, during the high‐water mark of Washington Consensus development, rural sociologists and geographers critical of contract farming described contract as a legal fiction—one that imagines formally equal and voluntary re…