Agrarian Change Seminars
Term 2, 2017-18
Journal of Agrarian Change and
Department of Development Studies, SOAS
Room G51a (ground floor, main building), SOAS
24 January, 5.15 pm
Food Import Dependency in Cuba: still the Achilles Heel of the Revolution?
Elisa Botella Rodríguez (University of Salamanca)
7 February, 5.15 pm
Land grabs, green grabs and financialization: Interlinkages and contradictions between primitive and capitalist accumulation
Shapan Adnan (Independent Scholar, formerly National University of Singapore)
21 February, 5.15 pm
Contract Farming in Global Production Networks: The Case of Tobacco in Southern Africa
Helena Pérez Niño (SOAS)
7 March 5.15 pm
Accumulating through Food Crisis: The Financialization of Agriculture from the Twentieth Century to the Present
Joseph Baines (King’s College London)
