Political Ecology of Industrial Crops

Abubakari Ahmed is a lecturer at the S.D. Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS), Ghana.

This book employs a political ecology lens to unravel how industrial crops catalyse ecological, agrarian, socioeconomic and institutional transformation.

Part I: Introductory 1. Industrial crops as agents of transformation: Justifying a Political Ecology lens 2. Political Agronomy 101: An Introduction to the Political Ecology of Industrial Cropping Systems 3. Political ecology of large-scale land acquisitions and land grabs for industrial crops 4. Marginal land for bioenergy crop production: Ambiguities, contradictions and cultural significance in policy and farmer discourses Part II: Ecological transformation 5. Transforming nature, crafting irrelevance: The commodification of marginal land for sugarcane and cocoa agroindustry in Peru 6. Cashews in Conflict: The Political Ecology of Cashew Pomiculture in Guinea-Bissau Part III: Agrarian transformation 7. The Political Ecology of Genetically Modified and Organic Cotton in India as Agents of Agrarian Transformation 8. Changing agrarian dynamics in oil palm and jatropha production areas of Ghana: A feminist political ecology perspective Part IV: Socioeconomic and institutional transformation 9. Political ecology of soybeans in South America 10. The Political Ecology of Maize in China: National Food Security and the Reclassification of Maize from Staple to Industrial Crop 11. Institutional and socioeconomic transformation from sugarcane expansion in northern Eswatini Part V: Synthesis 12. Political ecology of industrial crops: Towards a synthesis and systematization