The Struggle for Land
Alex HeffronA blog where I think out loud whilst I pursue my research looking at land use, agricultural transitions and ecological crisis from the perspective of Marxist political economy. I used to farm in Wales and now I'm a PhD researcher at Lancaster University.
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Against food security as national security
An hour after I published my previous article – I came across an entirely new and alarming definition of food security. In a post on LinkedIn ffinlo Costain wrote:
‘Food security’ framing addresses how we feed Britain in an emergency or...
The growing influence of the war lobby on British food and farming
Food and farming figures and organisations in the UK are increasingly articulating their concerns about the food and farming system in the language of national security. It’s something I’ve criticised before referring to writing by food sov...
Trees devouring sheep: climate rentierism and the financialised land grabbing of Welsh farmland
‘The Welsh hills have provided home to sheep for thousands of years and today there are three times more sheep than people, largely due to their numbers doubling since 1950 (Fuller and Gough 1999) resulting from the green revolution. Howeve...
Occupying the Land Question
This was supposed to form part of a long essay, but it didn’t get published in the end, and the timing of it has now passed, so I’m going to post fragments of it on here.
There are new demands and desires for land beginning to flourish on...
Industrial agriculture is not the enemy
For too long the strategic goal of agroecology and food sovereignty has been to abolish industrial agriculture. It draws people into the movement (like myself), it organises its tactics and it guides the subjectivity it interpellates. Very...
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Farmer's husband and full-time PhD researcher studying the political economy of farming and farmland
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