Venue: Seminar Room, Australia India Institute, The University of Melbourne
Presenters: Dr Trent Brown
According to its advocates, low-external input sustainable agriculture has the potential to not only reduce the ecological burden of industrial farming, but also to challenge entrenched power relations. This is said to be particularly true in developing countries.
Through building farmers’ self-sufficiency and establishing local marketing networks, ecologically integrated farming systems are said to reduce farmer dependency upon chemical and seed companies and undermine the hegemony of global agri-business over developing countries’ food systems.
The irony, however, is that in order to achieve their goals, organisations promoting sustainable agriculture must work with at least four entities that are part of the same hegemonic bloc that established the existing global food regime. Typically, they must forge relations with:
international donors;
the state;
the urban middle class;
the rural elite.
Through reference to three case studies, this talk will explore how the contradiction between sustainable agriculture’s hegemonic embeddedness and counter-hegemonic ideology play out on the ground in rural India.
DrTrent Brown is a research assistant at the Australia India Institute.
from
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/7464-south-asia-research-seminar-hegemony-and-sustainable-agriculture-in-india
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