Abstract
ABSTRACTWhile family agriculture is above all characterised by the non-separation of capital and labour, the recent developments in various forms of production – the land grabbing process in particular – can be analysed from the viewpoint of capital/labour separation. In-depth research conducted in several regions of the world shows that this process is accompanied by a distribution of value added which is particularly favourable to capital holders but to the detriment of workers, an imbalance which is partly due to the disconnection between salaries and productivity, which is behind the profitability of these projects (the capacity to remunerate invested capitals).
Highlights
We know that the large-scale movement for the acquisition or control of agricultural lands, by public or private actors, increased in scale after the 2007-2008 surges in agricultural prices
2 According to the FAO and the IIASA, 80% of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. (Fisher G., Van Velthuizen H et al 2002)
Irrespective of the high level of daily labour productivity in the best equipped production systems, labour remuneration remains comparable with the very low level of labour productivity obtained in the immense majority of small agricultural production units of the region, which are deprived of land as well as irrigation water and are under-equipped
Summary
We know that the large-scale movement for the acquisition or control of agricultural lands, by public or private actors, increased in scale after the 2007-2008 surges in agricultural prices. “flexible farming” results from the implementation of three distinct projects, i.e. proprietary, entrepreneurial and technical projects, which can be run by different people or institutions: first there is the proprietary project which is run by the owner of the farm (who would be authorised to increase the rent required beyond the current legal limit13); there is the agricultural entrepreneur who can accumulate the growth of his activity in an agricultural fund, the value of which includes clients, subcontracting contracts and production rights (...) as well as farming leases; there is the agricultural service contractor who develops a project to supply equipment and labour to agricultural entrepreneurs who, in turn, can offer many variable costs and make the production process Many examples of this type of situations are found around the world. Mixed cropping and livestock operations of the privatized former Soviet structures: 2000 ha of barley, wheat, oats, rapeseed, soybean and sunflower, and some corn and temporary pasture land, 100 dairy cows for 2 200 litres, 80 employees, and partly used heterogeneous equipment
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