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ACTORS OF LAND SAYING BYE TO FARMING: A GLOBAL REVIEW ON DE-/RE-PEASANTIZATION AND ABSENTEE LANDLORDS

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Sachin Rathour , Prakash Singh Badal , Suman Kumar Sourav , Virendra Kamalvanshi , Vaishnavi Singh and Atul Anil Gawhare

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Sachin Rathour1 , Prakash Singh Badal2 , Suman Kumar Sourav3 , Virendra Kamalvanshi4 , Vaishnavi Singh1 and Atul Anil Gawhare1
1. Research Scholar, Department of Agricultural Economics, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi – 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India.
2. Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Institute of Agriculture Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India.
3. Doctoral Researcher, Organic Plant Production and Agroecosysteme Research in the Tropics and SubTropics (OPATS), Universite of Kassel, Kassel Germany.
4. Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Institute of Agriculture Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Rathour, Sachin, et al. "ACTORS OF LAND SAYING BYE TO FARMING: A GLOBAL REVIEW ON DE-/RE-PEASANTIZATION AND ABSENTEE LANDLORDS." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 8, no. 11, Nov. 2023, pp. 3453-3482, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i11.009. Accessed Nov. 2023.
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Rathour, S., Badal, P., Sourav, S., Kamalvanshi, V., Singh, V., & Gawhare, A. (2023, November). ACTORS OF LAND SAYING BYE TO FARMING: A GLOBAL REVIEW ON DE-/RE-PEASANTIZATION AND ABSENTEE LANDLORDS. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 8(11), 3453-3482. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i11.009
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Rathour, Sachin, Prakash Singh Badal, Suman Kumar Sourav, Virendra Kamalvanshi, Vaishnavi Singh, and Atul Anil Gawhare. "ACTORS OF LAND SAYING BYE TO FARMING: A GLOBAL REVIEW ON DE-/RE-PEASANTIZATION AND ABSENTEE LANDLORDS." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 8, no. 11 (November 2023), 3453-3482. Accessed November, 2023. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i11.009.

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This scholarly review delves into the intricate phenomenon of depeasantization and absentee landlordism, defining distinctive trends characterized by a diminishing interest in farming practices. Depeasantization marks the departure of farmers from agricultural endeavors, while absentee landowners, detached from arable land and derive revenue from tenant farmers. These shifts in recent times pose significant food security concerns. Academic scrutiny of the global food crisis highlights its emergence as a critical concern for the global community. The study investigates factors triggering these trends, including the forced occupation of agricultural land by state authorities for development projects, resulting in a scarcity of arable land. This landscape is further complicated by issues such as mounting credit debts, escalating input costs, strained intra-family relationships, exorbitant land rents surpassing land earnings, and financial crises. These adversities ensnare agrarian societies in distress, anxiety, depression, and manifest in extreme cases as agricultural suicides. Notwithstanding ideological disparities, both agrarian political economists and classical economists converge on the notion that the logic of accumulation and development induces a progressive disconnection of rural populations from the land. This process, once initiated, whether through dispossession, capitalist expansion, or coerced demographic shifts, perpetuates a detachment of rural communities from agriculture. The review also scrutinizes the intensification of global competition, akin to a 'race to the bottom,' within rapidly transforming food retail patterns witnessed in supermarkets. It explores deliberate shifts in agricultural practices through the lens of 'multifunctional farming' and reevaluating the farm as a nexus. Cases from Netherlands, rural Europe, and certain regions of the United States highlight the proliferation of high-tech agronomic practices and the integration of agriculture with activities like agro-tourism and quality production this lead economies of scope over scale. Policy initiatives to integrate ecosystem valuation, leading to a paradigm of repeasantization. Van der Ploeg's conceptualization of transforming human capital into agroecological capital echoes the potential for policy-driven re-peasantization.

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