Against food security as national security
When food security is reframed as a project of national security it fuels the disaster nationalism of the far right and abandons ideas of collective safety at a global level
The Struggle for Land
A blog where I think out loud whilst I pursue my research looking at land use, agricultural transitions and ecological crisis from the perspective of Marxist political economy. I used to farm in Wales and now I'm a PhD researcher at Lancaster University.
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The growing influence of the war lobby on British food and farming
British Food and farming figures and organisations are increasingly articulating their concerns in the language of national security – we must reject this
Trees devouring sheep: climate rentierism and the financialised land grabbing of Welsh farmland
Who benefits and who loses in capitalist green transitions? A case study analysis of financialisation, climate rentierism and land grabbing in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Occupying the Land Question
What would it mean if movements for agroecology and food sovereignty repossessed the land that was taken away from all of us?
Industrial agriculture is not the enemy
Thinking once more on the distinction between strategy and tactics, exchange value and use value, in agroecology and food sovereignty
Famines of the capitalist economy
Every year it's taken for granted that billions of people should remain undernourished – it's beyond time to question the fundamental cause of that malnutrition.
A belly full of natural gas and other fictions of self-sufficiency
Does a greenhouse full of peppers and tomatoes bathing in the warmth of natural gas and fed a diet of fertilisers really represent food security and self-sufficiency?
Is the UK really 60% self-sufficient in food?
On the myths of self-sufficiency, localism and nationalism, and why it matters for the project of food sovereignty at a time of global eco-apartheid
Are all farmers struggling?
Getting beyond flattened narratives that imagines all farmers across the world exploited by agribusiness and processors/retailers, and instead looking at those who do very well out of this arrangement
Are farmers a class?
What do we mean when we say farmer if we analyse it through the lens of class?