"Production Grabbing": New Investors and Investment Models in Agriculture

Ward Anseeuw and Antoine Ducastel

QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, 2013, issue 2

Abstract: This paper details profound agrarian restructurings related to new agricultural investment models. These models, promoted by macro-actors such as banking corporations; investment funds; asset management companies and agricultural engineering companies, often foreign to the agricultural sector, integrate the primary agricultural production within totally integrated, finance-value-chains. Macroactors oversee, control and own the entire process (supply of inputs, monitoring of the harvest, hedge and sale of the production) whereas independent farmers become "service-providers" of these institutions and in several cases do not even own the land. The paper analyses the agricultural production models being developed in South Africa, their implications for the country’s agricultural development trajectories and for the status of the independent farmer in South Africa.

Keywords: South Africa; Investment; FDI; Corporization; Agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 Q15 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista. ... ngua=en&idRivista=25 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rar:journl:0260

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria from Associazione Rossi Doria Via Silvio d'Amico 77, - 00145 Rome Italy. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).