Persistent farmland imaginaries: celebration of fertile soil and the recurrent ignorance of climate. Visser, O. Agriculture and Human Values, 2020. doi abstract bibtex This article looks at how imaginaries of land and climate play a role in farmland investment discourses and practices. Foreign farmland investors in the fertile black earth region of Russia and Ukraine have ‘celebrated’ soil fertility while largely ignoring climatic factors. The article shows a centuries-long history of outsiders coming to the region lured by the fertile soils, while grossly underestimating climate which has had disastrous implications for farm viability and the environment. Comparisons with historical and contemporary literature on other regions (e.g. the US prairies and North Africa) suggest that the underestimation of climatic risks by newcomers is remarkably prevalent in resource frontiers. © 2020, The Author(s).
@article{visser_persistent_2020,
title = {Persistent farmland imaginaries: celebration of fertile soil and the recurrent ignorance of climate},
shorttitle = {Persistent farmland imaginaries},
doi = {10.1007/s10460-020-10154-1},
abstract = {This article looks at how imaginaries of land and climate play a role in farmland investment discourses and practices. Foreign farmland investors in the fertile black earth region of Russia and Ukraine have ‘celebrated’ soil fertility while largely ignoring climatic factors. The article shows a centuries-long history of outsiders coming to the region lured by the fertile soils, while grossly underestimating climate which has had disastrous implications for farm viability and the environment. Comparisons with historical and contemporary literature on other regions (e.g. the US prairies and North Africa) suggest that the underestimation of climatic risks by newcomers is remarkably prevalent in resource frontiers. © 2020, The Author(s).},
journal = {Agriculture and Human Values},
author = {Visser, O.},
year = {2020},
keywords = {5 Ignorance and manufactured doubt, Climate, Farmland investment, Ignorance, Land imaginaries, PRINTED (Fonds papier), Soil},
}
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