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Interrogating the logic of accumulation in the sugar sector in Southern Africa
(2016) Dubb, Alex
Introduction to regional patterns of sugar production accumulation by way of data analysis for key (formerly ‘South African’) firm Illovo across 6 countries  ‘Centrifugal’ logic throws-up a diversity of routes of accumulation, and different broad political compacts, despite focusing on a single company, (monolithic?) commodity and region  Detailed case studies to provided by SSRN in special issue of Journal of Southern African Studies
Patterns of accumulation in South Africa’s grain-livestock complex: raising questions of agrarian structure
(2017) Dubb, Alex
• What is the grain-livestock ‘complex’ (GLC)?: – ‘Complex’ rests on the key linkage between maize and soya key inputs and central cost ingredients in production of feed for intensive livestock production (pigs, chickens beef). – Central to ‘Food Regime’ analyses, linking agro-food capitals in different countries/regions by trade, such as US and Europe (Friedman and McMichael), China and Argentina. – Also increasingly important to theorizations hidden environmental cost of agriculture and its centrality to agro-industrial accumulation (Weis; Moore) – Of growing centrality to the wider social reproduction of labour and capitalist development, e.g. ‘meatification’ of diets; ‘nutrition transition’