Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era

Primitive Accumulation and the Peasantry

Sam Moyo, Utsa Patnaik

Food security and asset possession of small producers in developing countries has been severely undermined over many years. The old primitive accumulation of capital – by seizing resources from colonies – was only temporarily halted by independence struggles. Today the advanced capitalist world, whose large scale agriculture cannot meet its own consumption needs, angles to control the superior productive capacity of developing countries for both food and agrofuels. Monopolistic control… (more information)