This article examines how Industrial cash crops (ICs) undermine food security in developing countries through land grab, causing depeasantization and disappearing crop diversity. By using three previous research on Ghana, Ethiopia and Indonesia the complexities involving land dispossession, cash crop monoculture, dependency on the market for food, and livelihood crises are brought into focus. The analyses show reasonable linkage between cash crops production and food insecurity. Subsistence farmers are shown to have more food stability, greater control over land use than cash crops farmers although cash crops farmers have higher gross incomes than subsistence farmers. Accumulation by dispossession is employed to contextualize the analyses in the neo-liberal framework of land grab. This article forms linkages between cash crop, land grab, depeasantization and disappearing food diversity with keen attention on the penchant for increased productivity and profit maximization as the overarching force driving land grab.
Keywords: Cash crops, depeasantization, food insecurity, land grab, accumulation by dispossession.
Sillah, B. (2018). The Paradox of Industrial Cash Crops Production: How Cash Cropping Undermines Developing Countries Food Security Through Land-grab, De-peasantization and Disappearing Diversity. Afribary. Retrieved from https://afribary.com/works/paradox-of-industrial-csh-crop-production
Sillah, Baba "The Paradox of Industrial Cash Crops Production: How Cash Cropping Undermines Developing Countries Food Security Through Land-grab, De-peasantization and Disappearing Diversity" Afribary. Afribary, 07 Nov. 2018, https://afribary.com/works/paradox-of-industrial-csh-crop-production. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
Sillah, Baba . "The Paradox of Industrial Cash Crops Production: How Cash Cropping Undermines Developing Countries Food Security Through Land-grab, De-peasantization and Disappearing Diversity". Afribary, Afribary, 07 Nov. 2018. Web. 23 Dec. 2024. < https://afribary.com/works/paradox-of-industrial-csh-crop-production >.
Sillah, Baba . "The Paradox of Industrial Cash Crops Production: How Cash Cropping Undermines Developing Countries Food Security Through Land-grab, De-peasantization and Disappearing Diversity" Afribary (2018). Accessed December 23, 2024. https://afribary.com/works/paradox-of-industrial-csh-crop-production