Introduction to Globalization The Agrarian World

Tathagato Chakraborty
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Agriculture

Agriculture: primitive economic activity Transformation started with Colonialism Colonies were regarded as the supplier of agro-base for the industrial development. Workshop of the world outsourcing of agriculture to British colonies A supplier of food and grains for the USA nowadays.
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An Agrarian World: Divided

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Population Land allotted Resources available Technological improvement Trade Subsistence to commercial outlook Emergence of Supermall culture

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Globalization and Agriculture

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Relation of Production : Agrarian south depends on import of food from North. An economically viable theory of Comparative Advantage but spoiling the rural small farmers livelihood. Relation of Social Reproduction: Issue of Global Food Security and serving a new consumption economy. Relation of Resistance: A global protest and movement against the conversion of agrarian world into a site of profit.
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The South

A supplier of staple food grain and fodder for livestock in Developed countries An importer of food: rise in commercial cropping made the south dependent on north for cheap food product import. A sufferer of Hunger amidst Abundance 1941 famine in British Calcutta : Reason as given by Prof. Amartya Sen is not because of lack of food but purchasing power. During colonial period governed by colonial rulers and after decolonization ruled by world forum like WTO
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The North

Exploiting resources and land of south Deepening agro-business A transformed rural landscape A new consumption culture A gradual disappearance of rural population and conversion into urban one Reforming agriculture from intensive subsistence to extensive commercial Introduction of supermarket Transnational corporation in agro-based industry
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Globalization of Agriculture
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Agriculture : subsistence to business agro-industrialization North South interdependence Trading given more importance over local consumption World bodies took part Abolition of small peasantry and emergence of Supermarket phenomenon with TNCs and MNCs A new labor market Agrarian transformation due to foreign needs Genetic modification Climate change issues Change in conventional labor force: comparative advantage of womens disadvantage

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Globalization as Resistant
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The consumer: food safety issue The farmer: rural urban disparity Farm worker: human rights and job security

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Globalization of Agriculture
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