The 4th International Conference of BICAS
AGRO-EXTRACTIVISM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE BRICS: AGRARIAN CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT TRAJECTORIES
Organized by College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD)
China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing, China
November 28 - 30, 2016
The conference is open to the COHD and the wider community
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DAY ONE: Monday 28 November
08:00 – 09:00
REGISTRATION (Front Hall, CIAD Building)
09:00 – 09:30
INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
Chair: Jingzhong Ye, Dean and Professor, COHD, China Agricultural University
Bingsheng Ke, President and Professor, China Agricultural University
Benjamin Cousins, Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of theWestern Cape, South Africa
Sergio Sauer, Professor, University of Brasilia, Brazil
09:30 – 10:30
FIRST PLENARY PANEL: Agrarian Changes in BRICS Countries (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
Chair: Hairong Yan, Associate Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Teodor Shanin, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Russia
Title: TBD
Benjamin Cousins, PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Agrarian change in BRICS countries - Frameworks for comparative analysis
10:30 – 11:00
COFFEE BREAK (Front Hall, CIAD Building)
11:00 – 12:30
FIRST PARALLEL PANEL
Panel 1: BRICS’ Global Investments (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
Chair: Sergio Schneider, Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Juliet Lu, UC Berkley, USA (juliet.luberkeley.edu)
Great expectations: Chinese investment in Laos and the myth of empty land
Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, UC Berkley, USA (oliveiraberkeley.edu)
Dragon heads and paper tigers: Discerning Chinese agribusiness investments in Brazil
Xiuli Xu, COHD, China Agricultural University (xxlcau.edu.cn); Xiaoyun Li, COHD, China Agricultural University (xiaoyuncau.edu.cn)
Traveling technocratic rationality: Historical review of China-Africa agricultural cooperation
Siu Sue Mark, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (suemark.yangongmail.com)
The evolving nature of Chinese land- based investments in Myanmar post- transition
Panel 2: Globalization and Modernization (008, CIAD Building)
Chair: Teresa Tadem, Professor, University of the Philippines
Lakshmi Adriani Savitri, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia (laksmi.adrianigmail.com)
Chinese migrant workers in Indonesia from colonial to neoliberal capitalist development: A history repeated?
Gubo Qi, COHD, China Agricultural University (qigupocau.edu.cn); Lerong Yu, COHD, China Agricultural University (yulerongcau.edu.cn); Dawit Alemu, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Ethiopia (dawit96yahoo.com); Seth Cook, International Institute for Environment and Development, UK (seth.cookiied.org); Xiaoyun Li, COHD, China Agricultural university (xiaoyuncau.edu.cn)
The logic of China-Africa agricultural cooperation: The imitation and adaptation of the institutions
Anthony Michael Fuller, University of Guelph, Canada (tfulleruoguelph.ca); Siyuan Xu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China (xusiyuan708163.com)
The adaptation of globally important agricultural heritage systems to modernization: Three village cases in Qingtian, south China
Benedict McKay, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (benedict.mckaygmail.com)
Agrarian extractivism in Bolivia
Panel 3: Agro-extractivism and Financialization (004, CIAD Building)
Chair: Huifang Wu, Professor, COHD, China Agricultural University
Nadine Reis, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (nreisunibonn.de)
(Agro-) Extractivism and financialization
Shigehisa Kasahara, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (kasaharaiss.nl)
The BRICS New Development Bank: Its likely effects on international political economy
Xing Yang, Kyoto University, Japan (yang.xing.62sst.kyoto-u.ac.jp); Shuji Hisano, Kyoto University, Japan (hisanoecon.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
Financialization of Chinese agriculture: Private equity companies, agribusiness and governments
Zhanfeng Guo, Northwest A&F University, China (guozhanfengnwafu.edu.cn); Li Sun, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Is the CSR a trap for village development? From the field study of a Chinese rural village
12:30 – 14:00
LUNCH BUFFET
14:00 – 15:30
SECOND PLENARY PANEL: Global Investments in Agriculture (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
Chair: Gubo Qi, Professor, COHD, China Agricultural University
Sergio Sauer, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Relations between Brazil and China and some impacts in Latin America
Nettie Wiebe, St. Andrew’s College, Canada
Losing ground: The effects of investor buy-ups and land concentration on family farms, women, and communities in Saskatchewan, Canada
Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Title: TBD
15:30 – 16:00
COFFEE BREAK (Front Hall, CIAD Building)
16:00 – 17:30
SECOND PARALLEL PANEL
Panel 4: Agriculture and Accumulation (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
Chair: Yu Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Murat Arsel, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (arseliss.nl)
Accumulation by dislocation: Enclosures and neoliberal developmentalism in contemporary Turkey
Clara Craviotti, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina (ccraviottiyahoo.com)
A global regime of accumulation? Actors, assemblages and controversies in the Argentine soybean seed industry
Wei Wang, COHD, China Agricultural University (wangwei901115163.com)
Accumulation and redistribution: An analytical framework to understand peasant differentiation in contemporary China
Cyriaque Hakizimana, PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, South Africa (chakizimanaplaas.org.za)
Land and agricultural commercialization in Meru County, Kenya: Evidence from three farming models
Panel 5: Boom Crops and Agriculture (008, CIAD Building)
Chair: Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Professor, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil
Juan Liu, Northwest A&F University, China (juanlcaugmail.com); Nuo Chen, Northwest A&F University, China
Banana boom and its implications inside and outside China
Helena Pérez Niño, PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, South Africa (hperezninoplass.org.za)
The tobacco boom in southern Africa: Interrogating its foundations and its implications for farmers in low-income countries
Yunan Xu, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (yunaniss.nl)
Fight against exclusion or resist within inclusion? Political reactions from rural villagers within the rise of industrial tree plantation sector in Guangxi, China
Chunyu Wang, COHD, China Agricultural University (wangchyucau.edu.cn)
Sweet at both ends? False claims, real struggles in a sugarcane plantation in China
Panel 6: State, Market and Society (004, CIAD Building)
Chair: Philip Hirsch, Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
Daniela Andrade, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (andradeiss.nl)
The expansion of natural resource-intensive sectors in Brazil and the extraction of income and wealth
Karori Singh, University of Rajasthan, India (karsiapcgmail.com)
Dismantling agrarian economy: An appraisal of agricultural development policies
Zhanping Hu, Singapore Management University (zphusmu.edu.sg)
The state-market-society nexus: Agrarian changes of the BRICS countries
Felix Kwabena Donkor, PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, South Africa (1239639students.wits.ac.za)
A study on the relationship between social grants receipt and engagement in agriculture/natural resource related activities
DAY TWO: Tuesday 29 November
09:00 – 10:30
THIRD PLENARY PANEL: Understanding Agro-extractivism (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
Chair: Murat Arsel, Associate Professor, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Philip Hirsch, University of Sydney, Australia
A regionalized approach to land relations under agro-extractivism
Mindi Schneider, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
On taking and leaving behind: Agrarian change and the dialectics of agro- extractivism
Gonzalo Colque Fernandez, Fundación TIERRA, Bolivia
Agro-extractivism in the context of commodities boom: The case of Bolivia and its recent agrarian transformations
10:30 – 11:00
COFFEE BREAK (Front Hall, CIAD Building)
11:00 – 12:30
THIRD PARALLEL PANEL (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
Panel 7: Agro-extractivism and Impacts on Livelihoods
Chair: Xiuli Xu, Associate Professor, COHD, China Agricultural University
Eduardo Climaco Tadem, University of the Philippines (ectademgmail.com)
Special economic zones and the peasantry: The case of the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority (APECO)
Frank Ademba, La Via Campasina, Tanzania (ademba.frankgmail.com)
The impacts of land grabbing on the livelihood of small-scale farmers in Tanzania: A case of SAGCOT areas in Ruvuma Region
Ruiqin Gao, COHD, China Agricultural University (gaoruiqincau.edu.cn)
Where are their hometown? Land transfer and migrant workers’ subsistence rights in China
Manenzhe Tshililo Justice, PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, South Africa (tmanenjegmail.com)
Land reform and the fate of farmworkers: Complexities of ‘belonging’ on community- owned capitalist farming enterprises in Levubu Valley, South Africa
Panel 8: Food Sovereignty and Food Politics (008, CIAD Building)
Chair: Yanli Liu, Associate Professor, COHD, China Agricultural University
Sayaka Funda Classen, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan (sayaka.funada.classengmx.de)
The historical process of expansion of global soy frontiers and ‘sovereignty’ questions: Focusing on the role of Japan in northeast China,Brazil and Mozambique
Midori Hiraga, Kyoto University, Japan (midorihiragagmail.com)
The development trajectory of vegetable oil industry based on the global oil-crops in agro- extractivism: An example of Japanese sogo-shosha and oil-related industry
Li Zhang, COHD, China Agricultural University (lili439666126.com)
‘Abundance’ illusion: Food politics in a southwest village in China
Congzhi He, COHD, China Agricultural University (heczcau.edu.cn)
Creating space for manoeuvre through alternative food practice in rural China
Panel 9: Food and Agriculture (004, CIAD Building)
Chair: Sally Annette Sargeson, Associate Professor, Australian National University
Myriam Del Carmen Paredes Chauca, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
(FLACSO), Argentina (mcparedesflacso.edu.ec)
Heterogeneity of agrifood production in search of sustainability in Ecuador
Mindi Schneider, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (schneideriss.nl)
The changing face of transnational agribusiness: TNCs in China and China’s TNCs
Huijiao Xu, COHD, China Agricultural University (xuhjcau.edu.cn)
For whose scale and for whose agricultural modernization - Demystification of economics of scale in Chinese agriculture
Jin Zhang, Wageningen University, the Netherlands (zhangjin082448163.com)
Getting the data right: Main trends in China’s agriculture and food sector
12:30 – 14:00
LUNCH BUFFET
14:00 – 15:30
FOURTH PLENARY PANEL: Peasants and Peasant Agriculture (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
Aleksandr Nikulin, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russia
Alexander Chayanov and contemporary Russian rural development
Sergio Schneider, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Accumulation from below in the world of agro-extractivism in BRICS countries - There is room for family farmers
Jingzhong Ye, Teodor Shanin, Sergio Schneider and Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
BRICS countries, extractivism, expolary economies and alternative-oriented struggles
15:30 – 16:00
COFFEE BREAK (Front Hall, CIAD Building)
16:00 – 17:30
FOURTH PARALLEL PANEL
Panel 10: Law and Gender (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
Chair: Jennifer C. Franco, Senior Researcher, Transnational Institute (TNI), the Netherlands
Daniel Huizenga, York University, Canada (huizengayorku.ca)
Articulations of transnational law and policy in the context of land reform and agro-extractivism in South Africa: Insights from socio-legal studies
Yonit Manor Percival, University of London, UK(y.percivalqmul.ac.uk; yonitpercivalhotmail.com)
Property rights and the taking of land: Expropriation in historical perspective
Chao Zhou, COHD, China Agricultural University (zhouchaocau.edu.cn); Anthony Michael Fuller, University of Guelph, Canada (tfulleruoguelph.ca)
The land assembly process in rural China: The prima facia step in the capitalization of agriculture
Nilesh N. Shinde, University of Campinas, Brazil (nileshshinde285gmail.com); Poonam Tajanpure, International Institute for Population Studies, India (poonam.tajanpuregmail.com)
Gender as economic category in agrarian question
Panel 11: Capitalization of Agriculture in China (008, CIAD Building)
Chair: Henry Veltmeyer, Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico
Yiyuan Chen, COHD, China Agricultural University (chenyiyuan1988163.com)
Overcoming the obstacles in developing capitalist agriculture: Capital accumulation by utilizing rural social networks
Yu Huang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China (yhuanguw.edu)
‘Pathogen exclusion’: The bourgeois science of shrimp disease control and farmers’ drive to overproduction in south China
Fangfei Lin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (teresalin13gmail.com)
Move to the west: Agrarian capitalization in Xinjiang’s cotton fields
Chiyin Ruan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (chiyinruanlink.cuhk.edu.hk)
The ‘company + peasant’ model and the poverty of the Yi ethnic minority: Exploring the development of buckwheat industry in Liangshan, Sichuan
Panel 12: Development and Rural Transformation (004, CIAD Building)
Chair: Forrest Zhang, Associate Professor, Singapore Management University
Shaohua Zhan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (shzhanntu.edu.sg)
Riding on food security: Agrarian capital and rural transformations in China
Huifang Wu, COHD, China Agricultural University (wuhfcau.edu.cn)
Commodification of land, labor and agro-food change in rural China: Observations from a village
Sally Annette Sargeson, Australian National University (sally.sargesonanu.edu.au)
Fragmentation and fragility: The impacts of compensating for land expropriations in China
Lu Pan, COHD, China Agricultural University (panlucau.edu.cn)
Industrial relocation: The exacerbated rural extraction
DAY THREE: Wednesday 30 November
09:00 – 10:30
FIFTH PLENARY PANEL: Agriculture and the Countryside (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
Chair: Tamara Jacka, Professor, Australian National University
Anirban Dasgupta, South Asian University, India
Agriculture and accumulation in India: A ruptured link?
Hairong Yan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Shall capital or cadres organize Chinese countryside?
Forrest Zhang, Singapore Management University
The end of the cooperative road for Chinese agriculture?
10:30 – 11:00
COFFEE BREAK (Front Hall, CIAD Building)
11:00 – 12:00
FIFTH PARALLEL PANEL
Panel 13: Agro-extractivism and Resistance-1 (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
Chair: Lu Pan, Associate Professor, COHD, China Agricultural University
Eric Hoddy, York University, UK (eth501york.york.ac.uk)
Brazil’s landless movement (MST) and rights ‘from below’
Tijo Salverda, Global South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne, Germany (tijotijosalverda.nl)
Facing criticism: Agro-extractivism and its
countermovement
Fabiano Escher, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (escher_fabhotmail.com); Sergio Schneider, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (schneideufrgs.br)
Counter-movements in Brazil and China agrifood systems? Some experiences in linking production and consumption through the construction of new, nested market
Panel 14: Agro-extractivism and Resistance-2 (004, CIAD Building)
Chair: Anirban Dasgupta, Associate Professor, South Asian University, India
Henry Veltmeyer, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico (hveltmeyergmail.com)
Agro-extractivism, development and the resistance in the neoliberal era: Lessons from Latin America
Awanish Kumar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India (awanishkumar86gmail.com); Silva Lieberherr, University of Zurich, Switzerland (silva.lieberherrgmail.com)
Emerging forms of agrarian resistance under globalization: Insights from Maharashtra State, India
Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil (bmffct.unesp.br); Philip Hirsch, University of Sydney, Australia (philip.hirschsydney.edu.au)
Limits to agro-extractivism in Brazil and the Mekong: A comparative political ecology of resistance and policy responses
Panel 15: Water Issues (008, CIAD Building)
Chair: Jennifer C. Franco, Senior Researcher, Transnational Institute (TNI), the Netherlands
Elyse Mills, ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (elysemillsgmail.com)
Dynamics of transnational ‘fisheries justice’ movements: Framing their implications for food and climate politics
Hua Li, Taiyuan University of Technology, China (lihuacau126.com)
Beyond discourses of water scarcity: Water politics of the south-to-north water diversion project in China
Peer Ghulam Nabi, Centre for Research and Development Policy (CRDP), India (suhailkoporgmail.com); Jingzhong Ye, COHD, China Agricultural University (yejzcau.edu.cn)
Whose land, whose water and whose power: State manipulation, corporate exploitation and the politics of land grabbing for water in Indian Kashmir
12:00 – 12:30
WRAP UP (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
12:30 – 14:00
LUNCH BUFFET
The afternoon events are only for those who are concerned and informed
14:00 – 15:00
BICAS Committee Meeting (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
15:00 – 16:00
Small Book Series Seminar (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
16:00 – 17:30
CSO Caucus (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
17:30 – 18:30
Little Meeting on Boom Crops, Land, Labor and Water (Auditorium, CIAD Building)
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