HeyJaredThe Struggle for Land
A blog where I think out loud whilst I pursue my research looking at land use, agricultural transitions and ecological crisis. I am a farmer's husband in Wales and a PhD researcher at Lancaster University.
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Against food security as national security (opens the original)
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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 when the nation is under attack.It really made me double-take. I’ve never once encountered this usage of the term before1. Costain is someone who calls for food sovereignty but then leverages this definition of food security which is so clearly bound up in a v
The growing influence of the war lobby on British food and farming (opens the original)
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Trees devouring sheep: climate rentierism and the financialised land grabbing of Welsh farmland (opens the original)
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