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  • 6 - How Should Food be Produced?

  • from Part I - Our World
  • Edited by Daniel Scott Souleles, Copenhagen Business School, Johan Gersel, Copenhagen Business School, Morten Sørensen Thaning, Copenhagen Business School
  • Book:
    People before Markets
    Published online:
    27 October 2022
    Print publication:
    03 November 2022, pp 117-139

  • Summary

    After the end of formal colonialism, numerous neoliberal international organizations stepped in to manage the international affairs of newly independent nations. The presumption of governments was that the best way to create national welfare was to let markets steer production by integrating the nation into an international capitalist order premised on market specialization and debt relationships. Here Freeman looks at the sort of industrial agricultural production that this kind of geopolitical arrangement engenders, focusing on pineapple plantations in Costa Rica. Cost Rican pineapple planatations are monocrops that exhaust the fertility of the land, provide poorly paid dangerous work, and spread toxic pesticides. International neoliberal governance structures with the overriding priority of stimulating market competion have enabled a system where production for the global is the objective. By contrast, Freeman shows what a food-growing setup can look like if it is oriented toward local production and away from international markets by examining “agroecology” in Haiti.