Agroenvironmental conflict and world food system theory: Sugarcane in the Everglades Agricultural Area |
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| Institution: | 1. Soil Physics, Department of Soil Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Abu Ghraib, Baghdad 10081, Iraq;2. Soil Physics, Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA;3. Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA;4. Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546, USA;1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada;2. Ontario Power Generation, 889 Brock Road, Pickering, Ontario L1W 3J2, Canada;1. Univ. of Florida, Everglades Research and Education Center, 3200 E Canal St. S, Belle Glade, FL, 33430, United States;2. Univ. of Florida, Soil and Water Sciences Department, University of Florida, United States;1. LASEFI/DEA/FEA (School of Food Engineering)/UNICAMP (University of Campinas) Cidade Universitária “Zeferino Vaz”, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 80, Campinas, 13083-862, Brazil;2. High Pressure Processes Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, University of Valladolid, Doctor Mergelina s/n, Valladolid, 47005, Spain;3. Center of Engineering, Modeling and Social Sciences (CECS), Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Avenida dos Estados, 5001, CEP: 09210-580, Santo André, Brazil;4. Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, STI-IGM-IPESE, Station 9, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland;1. National Drought Mitigation Center, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA;2. Department of Bioresources and Rural Systems Engineering, Hankyong National University, Anseong, Republic of Korea;3. Institute of Agricultural Environmental Science, Hankyong National University, Anseong, Republic of Korea;4. Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA;5. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Environmental Microbial & Food Safety Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD, USA;6. Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Engineering, Oak Ridge, TN, USA;7. Department of Rural Systems Engineering and Research Institute for Agriculture & Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;8. Rural Research Institute, Korea Rural Community Corporation, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | This paper presents a critique of the conceptualization of conflict over land-extensive rural production systems as presented by world food systems theorists. Two problems are identified. The first is historical; specifically, that the periodization of food regimes occludes Caribbean development and plantation agriculture, thereby missing the historical development of the social relations of certain commodity sectors. The second is geographical: that agroenvironmental conflict and sustainability are conceptualized either in terms of local/global (Friedmann, 1990, 1991) or in terms of North/South (Goodman and Redclift, 1991). The paper begins with a summary of the relevant arguments of world food theorists and then turns to the historical example of sugar production to examine its role in industrialization. The following section discusses arguments concerning agroenvironmental conflict that have emerged from food system theory, which emphasize contrasting ‘geographical’ components, either local/global or North/South. The limitations of this analysis are discussed with respect to the case of agroenvironmental conflict in Florida. Finally, a case study of the development of the Florida sugarcane industry is presented to illustrate a ‘First World’ environmental conflict over an agroindustrial production complex that cannot be categorized simply as a ‘consumption’ struggle. |
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