Exporting contradictions: the expansion of South African agrarian capital within Africa

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dc.contributor.authorHall, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorCousins, Ben
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-05T12:41:37Z
dc.date.available2018-01-05T12:41:37Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractAgrarian change in South Africa over the past two decades has seen consolidation of the hegemony of large-scale commercial farming and corporate agribusiness within agro-food systems. Constrained domestic demand and growth opportunities elsewhere have driven both farming and agribusiness capitals to move into other African countries, attempting to reproduce agro-food systems similarly centred on the dominance of large capital. This is evident in five areas: first, the financialization of agriculture and ‘farmland funds’; second, multinational and South African input supply industries; third, large-scale land deals to expand industrial farming systems; fourth, the export of South African companies’ food processing, manufacture, logistics and distribution operations; and fifth, the expanding reach of South African supermarkets and fast food chains. Regional expansion involves South African agrarian capital encountering substantial obstacles to entry, and challenges mounted by competitors in destination markets. Success as a regional hegemon in Africa’s agro-food system is thus far from assured, and even where it does appear to succeed, generates contradictions, and rising social tensions of the kinds experienced in South Africa itself.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHall, R. & Cousins, B. (2017). Exporting contradictions: the expansion of South African agrarian capital within Africa. Globalizations, 1-20en_US
dc.identifier.issn1474-7731
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2017.1408335
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3355
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2017.1408335
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectAgro-food systemen_US
dc.subjectLand graben_US
dc.subjectSupermarketsen_US
dc.subjectFinancializationen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.titleExporting contradictions: the expansion of South African agrarian capital within Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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