2023/06/15 by Henry Veltmeyer, Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete, Arturo Ezquerro‐Cañete
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development #Global trade, sustainability, and social impact #Political Economy and Marxism
paper · doi:10.1080/03066150.2023.2218802
openalex publication_date 2023/06/15 · openalex created_date 2023/06/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The term agro-extractivism has become synonymous with large-scale, corporate-controlled, monoculture plantation agriculture. The aim of this concept note is to clarify the extractivist dynamics in the current context of the capitalist development process. The paper surveys the development of agro-extractivism as a conceptual framework and as a feature of the contemporary political economy of agrarian change in Latin America. It briefly reflects on the potential contributions of land-based struggles to post-extractivist alternatives based on food sovereignty politics. The paper concludes by assessing the broader implications of agro-extractivism for our understanding of the agrarian question in the twenty-first century.