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The agrarian question of climate change

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: The agrarian question of the twenty-first century is the agrarian question of climate change. The classical agrarian question asked how capitalist development was reshaping fin de siècle agriculture and with what consequences. The answers often contradicted predictions, and thereby teleological notions of development. Today, we must ask how climate change adaptation and mitigation, alongside and through other ongoing processes of capitalist development, are reshaping agrarian lives, livelihoods, landscapes, and politics, and with what consequences. We argue that attention to the agrarian question is essential to understanding social, political, and economic transformation broadly in the time of climate change.

Source: Progress in Human Geography

DOI: 10.1177/03091325241269701

Authors: Kasia Paprocki, James McCarthy

Institutions: London School of Economics and Political Science, Clark University

Language: English

Topic: Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Subfield: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,700