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Our hosts are Diana Rodgers and James Connelly. Thank you to all who’ve made this show possible. Website: Madeleine Fairbairn and UC AFTeR Project Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It by Tom Philpott The Last Supper for Malthus: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth by Tom Burgis The rise of ESGs (Environmental, Social, and Governance) or socially responsible investingįields of Gold by Madeleine Fairbairn (free ebook) How Harvard Management Company bought a vineyard Congress's bipartisan measure to prevent institutions from taking over farmland and how those measures went away in the 1980s Financialization and how it affects all areas of our lives Their conversation concludes with our current landscape where we see major investment companies like Harvard Management Company and TIAA owning huge swaths of farmland, often to the detriment of the local community. This situation coupled with financial deregulation in the 80s and 90s caused changing mindsets in companies and consumers that now make finance a part of our everyday lives. James and Madeleine start their discussion in the 1970s with skyrocketing crop prices, quickly followed by overproduction and inflation, making farmland attractive to wealthy investors.
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Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush explores the financialization of farmland and how financial institutions began treating farmland as investment opportunities. My co-host James Connelly interviews Madeleine Fairbairn, an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz about her latest book. Financial institutions have been in the farmland game for years. Paperback in English - Second Edition edition. In the episode, we learn that it’s not only Big Ag that’s getting into the small farm business. The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medical Use. You can read my post about the buyout here and my concerns about CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) taking over companies with higher standards of production. One relatively recent example is Perdue’s purchase of Niman Ranch. Often these farms are bought up by larger conglomerates. Small and mid-sized farms in America have been dwindling for decades.