Globally engaged farmers as transnational actors: Navigating the landscape of agri-food globalization |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland;2. Centre for Precolumbian Studies, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmie?cie 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland;3. Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland;4. The Antiquity of Southeastern Europe Research Center, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmie?cie 32, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland;5. Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warsaw, Poland;6. Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7044, SE 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden;1. College of Engineering and Design, Shibaura Institute of Technology;2. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, SOJO University |
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| Abstract: | Farmers are not commonly included in studies of transnational actors, but with the globalization of agricultural markets, and the neoliberal reform of national agricultural sectors, an increasing number of family farm-entrepreneurs have become engaged in transnational activities. Drawing on interviews with ‘globally-engaged’ farmers in Australia – a country in which expansion into transnational activities has been encouraged by the radical deregulation of domestic markets – this paper explores the transnational mobilities of farmers who have sought to capitalize on the advantages of globalization by directly trading with international partners, establishing international business contacts, and learning international best practice in farm efficiency and environmental performance. In particular, the paper examines the varying spatialities and forms of mobility executed by farmers and observes how different patterns of mobility are executed in response to the particular exigencies of their respective industries as well as the ongoing imperatives of maintaining a farm business. By analyzing the farmers’ own narratives of these different spatialities, the paper develops a more critical and reflexive perspective on globalization and its impact on rural producers, with travel becoming both an opportunity to be enjoyed and a compulsion to be endured by those forced to operate in a climate where state-based support structures are absent. |
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