Peasants and Globalization: Political Economy, Rural Transformation and the Agrarian Question

Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon, and Cristobal Kay (eds.)
Peasants and Globalization: Political Economy, Rural Transformation and the Agrarian Question
Abingdon, Routledge, 2009, ISBN 9780415446297, 347pp
This book explores continuity and change on the agrarian question from its early formulation in the late 19th century to its continuing relevance today. The contributors argue that neo-liberal social and economic policies have, in deepening the market imperative governing the contemporary world food system, not only failed to tackle the underlying causes of rural poverty, but deepened the agrarian crisis confronting the livelihoods of peasant farmers and rural workers. Transnational rural social movements are in response attempting to construct a more just future for the world’s farmers and rural workers.