Visser Oane
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Kortenaerkade 12, 2518 AX The Hague, The Netherlands.
Agric Human Values. 2017;34(1):185-198. doi: 10.1007/s10460-015-9679-7. Epub 2016 Feb 1.
This article critically analyzes the assumption that land is becoming increasingly scarce and that, therefore, farmland values are bound to rise across the globe. It investigates the process of land value creation, as well as its flipside: value erosion and stagnation, looking at the various mechanisms involved in each. As such, it is a study of how the financialization of agriculture affects the process of land commoditization. I show that, for farmland to be turned into an asset, a whole range of conditions have to be fulfilled, presenting a typology of asset making in the context of farmland. Asset making, like commoditization, is a process of assemblage, and it is less straightforward and less stable than generally assumed. Further, I argue that 'asset making' is not a one-way process. The article is based on an analysis of global data on land values and the case of farmland investment in post-Soviet farmland (Russia and Ukraine).
本文批判性地分析了土地日益稀缺这一假设，以及由此得出的全球农田价值必然上涨的结论。它研究了土地价值创造的过程，以及其反面：价值侵蚀和停滞，并审视了其中涉及的各种机制。因此，这是一项关于农业金融化如何影响土地商品化过程的研究。我指出，要将农田转变为资产，必须满足一系列条件，并在农田背景下呈现了资产形成的类型学。资产形成与商品化一样，是一个组合的过程，而且它比通常认为的更不直接、更不稳定。此外，我认为“资产形成”并非单向过程。本文基于对全球土地价值数据的分析以及后苏联时期（俄罗斯和乌克兰）农田投资的案例。
