Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20804
Title: Grounding the finacialization of farmland: perspectives on financial actors as new land owners in rural Australia
Contributor(s): Sippel, Sarah Ruth (author); Larder, Nicolette  (author)orcid ; Lawrence, Geoffery (author)
Publication Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-016-9707-2
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20804
Abstract: Sparked by the conjunction of food, fuel, and financial crises, there has been an increasing awareness in recent years of the scarce and finite character of natural resources. Productive resources such as agricultural land have been touted by financial actors-such as merchant banks, pension funds, and investment companies-as providing the basis for a range of new "alternative" financial asset classes and products. While the drivers, motives, and rationales behind the increasing interest of turning farmland into a financial asset class have been traced by a number of scholars, the interpretations of, and interactions with, financial actors at the community level have received less attention. Based on qualitative research in rural Australia, this paper reveals the grounds on which financebacked investments have been accepted and accommodated by communities in rural Australia and delineates the reasons that have led to feelings of unease or refusal. The paper thereby demonstrates that the financialization of farmland is neither abstract nor one-sided but rather a multidimensional process that not only includes financial actors but also the impacted rural populations in various ways. Positioning the activities of financial actors in Australia within the emerging research on the financialization of farmland, the paper endorses context-sensitive analyses to better interpret these recent transformations of the agrifood system.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Agriculture and Human Values, 34(2), p. 251-265
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Place of Publication: Netherlands
ISSN: 1572-8366
0889-048X
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160403 Social and Cultural Geography
160401 Economic Geography
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 440603 Economic geography
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
970107 Expanding Knowledge in the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society
280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies
280101 Expanding knowledge in the agricultural, food and veterinary sciences
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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