GGR329H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Agrarian Reform, Sugar Beet, Carbon Credit
11 May 2018
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Friday, January 26, 2018
GGR329 LECTURE 3
OVERVIEW:
- Review Food Sovereignty
- Agrarian reform
- Corporate power
The Context: Land Grabbing
• Can be driven through concessions, forced sales, and outright theft
• Often results from pressure from extractive industries, infrastructure, projects, agro fuel,
plantations, carbon- credit plantations
Agrarian Reform
• Genuine vs. fake reform
The former involves pro-poor land redistribution
• Examples of successful reforms in both capitalist and socialist countries
• Importance of land reform 'from below'
Land Sovereignty: 'The right of the working peoples, rural and urban, to have effective access to
control over the use of land, and live on it as a resource space and territory'
- What about people's attachments to the model of private property ownership?
- What about Indigenous land rights?
Food Sovereignty
- A response to Neoliberalism
• A political ideology
• Focus on 'free markets' and economic growth
• Roll back state, cut social spending, encourage exports
• Roll out punitive policies, public-private initiatives and encourage individualistic
responses
Genetic Modification
• The forcible insertion or alteration of genetic information in a host organism in ways that
would not occur naturally- Ann Clark
• Which crops are genetically modified in Canada? - Canola, Soy, Corn, Sugar beet,
Alfalfa?, Atlantic Salmon?
• Two traits (what is being genetically modified): herbicide tolerance, insect resistance
• Concentration of economic and scientific power: Patents!
Supermarkets
• Pseudo foods (Processed foods- Fat, sugar and salt in food to make them taste good)
• Different profits
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Document Summary
The context: land grabbing: can be driven through concessions, forced sales, and outright theft, often results from pressure from extractive industries, infrastructure, projects, agro fuel, plantations, carbon- credit plantations. The former involves pro-poor land redistribution: examples of successful reforms in both capitalist and socialist countries. Land sovereignty: "the right of the working peoples, rural and urban, to have effective access to control over the use of land, and live on it as a resource space and territory" A response to neoliberalism: a political ideology, focus on "free markets" and economic growth, roll back state, cut social spending, encourage exports, roll out punitive policies, public-private initiatives and encourage individualistic responses. Alfalfa?, atlantic salmon: two traits (what is being genetically modified): herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, concentration of economic and scientific power: patents! Supermarkets: pseudo foods (processed foods- fat, sugar and salt in food to make them taste good, different profits. Friday, january 26, 2018: mass advertising, strategic layout.
