Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America

Name: Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Agrarian Extractivism in Latin AmericaAuthor(s): Ben M. McKay, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Arturo Ezquerro-Caete\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367422547, 978-0367422547\nSynopsis\nAmid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.\n\nThe concept goes beyond the more apparent features of monocultures and raw material exports to examine the inherent logic and underlying workings of a model based on the appropriation of an ever-growing range of commodified and non-commodified human and non-human nature in an extractivist fashion. Such a process erodes the autonomy of resourcedependent working people, dispossesses the rural poor, exhausts and expropriates nature, and concentrates value in a few hands as a result of the u.