Contested landscapes: the global political economy of climate-smart agriculture
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Analysing key initiatives in the area of climate-smart agriculture and the politics which surround them, this paper identifies the dominant discourses shaping the debate through a discussion of discursive sites of power and by mapping the emerging ‘regime complex’ of institutional power that operates at the interface of the climate and agrifood system. This is connected to forms of material power that derive from control over production, finance and technology in the neoliberal food regime by transnational capital. Such an analysis has important implications for which solutions are promoted as part of climate-smart agriculture and which actors are likely to benefit from the flows of technology, finance and institutional support that are mobilised in the struggle to define a viable global agrifood system in a warming world.
Source: The Journal of Peasant Studies
Authors: Peter Newell, Olivia Taylor
Institution: University of Sussex
Language: English
Subfield: Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDGs: Climate action, Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2613294194