Banking on Agriculture
A Review of the World Development Report 2008
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16775271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Mcmichael (0000-0003-1043-4913, Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235-246 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Agrarian Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-0358 • E-ISSN: 1471-0366 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2009.00203.x |
| OpenAlex | W2073479045 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 11 |
The World Bank's World Development Report 2008 repackages the development trope that assumes small‐scale agriculture to be poor and inefficient and/or redundant in a world of supply shortages despite food abundance. The ‘new agriculture for development’ replaces smallholder knowledge with corporate inputs to channel food through ‘value chains’ to markets comprised of those with purchasing power. This essay questions the Bank's new vision, arguing that ‘new wine in old bottles’ will continue to supply affluence rather than ‘feed the world’ and sustain its agricultures, especially at a time when land is being commandeered for luxury foods (e.g. the livestock complex, all‐season vegetables and fruits) and biofuels, neither of which feed the poor. Ironically, the reproduction of poverty remains the Bank's main source of legitimacy
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Food security · Food systems · Futures contract · Geography · Livestock · Poverty · Purchasing power · Agricultural risk and resilience · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Finance
"New Terra Nullius Narratives and the Gentrification of Africa's "Empty Lands
Towards a green modernization development discourse
Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity
Alternative Pathways out of Rural Poverty in Mexico
The right to food in the context of large-scale land investment in Ethiopia
Peasantry in the Twenty-First Century
Palm oil social conflict resolution and mediation in Jambi
(Re)making landscapes into resources
What’s ‘rural’ in rural development? Interrogating internationalised visions for the African countryside
The framing of climate change and development
Towards the real green revolution? Exploring the conceptual dimensions of a new ecological modernisation of agriculture that could ‘feed the world’
A food regime analysis of the ‘world food crisis’
In the shadow of state-led agrarian reforms
From rent-seeking to rent-producing
Commercialisation
Revisiting Rwanda's agricultural intensification policy
European transitions towards a corporate-environmental food regime
Swimming Upstream
Wasting the rural
A food regime genealogy
Critical agrarian studies and crises of the world-historical present
The role of custom farming in agribusiness expansion in Argentina
Development strategies and rural development
The Long Green Revolution
Commentary
Processes of inclusion and adverse incorporation
Financial footprint of development finance institutions in the restructuring of Turkey’s agri-food sector
Politische Ökologie und Politics of Scale – Vermittlungszusammenhänge zwischen Raum, Natur und Gesellschaft
New agriculture' for sustainable development? Biofuels and agrarian change in post-war Sierra Leone
Biofuel as social fuel
Sustainable development and policies in rural regions; insights from the Shetland Islands
Green grabs and rural development
Inducing food insecurity
Acteurs, histoire, territoires et la recherche d'une économie politique d'un développement durable
Agricultures, ruralités, paysanneries
Haiti's Post-Earthquake Transformation
Securing land rights for women
Is Contract Farming Fair For Smallholder Farmers? A Case Study From India
Food Riots
The Agrarian Question in Neoliberal India
The Transformation of the Spanish Livestock System in the Second and Third Food Regimes
The Food Crisis, Industrialized Farming and the Imperial Regime
The company is here to do goodness to us
"Capitalist crisis in the "age of global value chains
Bridges, platforms and satellites
Poverty Alleviation and Smallholder Agriculture
Hungry for profit
Resource-Conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries
The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health
Planet of Slums
The global food economy
Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour
The Poverty of the Global Order
Contemporary Contradictions of the Global Development Project
World Poverty, Pauperization and Capital Accumulation
World Development Report 2008
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,71 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |