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Flex Crops

Energy and Environment

The convergence of multiple crises (food, energy and fuel, climate and financial) in the midst of the rise of newer hubs of global capital (BRICS countries and some middle income countries) – and the various responses to these by states and corporations – have paved the way for the emergence of ‘flex crops and commodities’. Flex crops and commodities are those that have multiple and/or flexible uses: food, animal feed, fuel, and other commercial-industrial uses. In fact the contemporary global land rush is intertwined with the rise of flex crops and commodities: sites of large-scale land deals tend to be sites of expansion of production of these crops and commodities, e.g. soya, sugarcane, palm oil, corn, cassava, industrial trees. The issues are compelling and urgent, yet still largely under-researched. What are the implications of this phenomenon for how scholars, civil society and grassroots social movements undertake ‘engaged research’, public actions and policy advocacy around agrarian justice issues?

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Think Piece Series on Flex Crops & Commodities

  • The Politics of Flex crops and Commodities Implications for research and policy advocacy

    • Just Transition
    • Flex Crops
    • Climate Crisis
    Report by
    • Jennifer Franco
    • Jun Borras
    • Pietje Vervest
    • S. Ryan Isakson
    • Les Levidow

  • Flex trees Flex trees: Political and rural dimensions in new uses of tree-based commodities

    • Just Transition
    • Flex Crops
    • Climate Crisis
    Report by
    Markus Kröger

  • The Politics of Flexing Soybeans in China and Brazil

    • Just Transition
    • Flex Crops
    • Climate Crisis
    Report by
    • Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
    • Mindi Schneider

  • The Politics of Sugarcane flexing in Brazil and beyond

    • Just Transition
    • Flex Crops
    • Climate Crisis
    Report by
    • Ben McKay
    • Sérgio Sauer
    • Ben Richardson
    • Roman Herre

  • The Political Economy of Oil Palm as a Flex Crop And its implications for Transnational Advocacy and Campaignings: A Preliminary Discussion

    • Just Transition
    • Flex Crops
    • Climate Crisis
    Paper by
    • Alberto Alonso-Fradejas
    • Juan Liu
    • Tania Salerno
    • Yunan Xu

  • Flex Crops: A Primer

    • Just Transition
    • Flex Crops
    • Climate Crisis
    Primer by
    • Jun Borras
    • Jennifer Franco
    • S. Ryan Isakson
    • Les Levidow
    • Pietje Vervest
    • Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
    • Mindi Schneider
    • Ben McKay
    • Sérgio Sauer
    • Ben Richardson
    • Roman Herre
    • Alberto Alonso-Fradejas
    • Juan Liu
    • Tania Salerno
    • Yunan Xu
    • Markus Kröger

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  • Jun Borras Associate

    Land and Water Grabbing

  • Jennifer Franco Researcher

    • Land Policy in Myanmar
    • Land and Water Grabbing

  • Katie Sandwell Programme Coordinator

    • Food Sovereignty
    • Agroecology
    • Just Transition
    • Land and Water Grabbing

  • David Fig Associate

    • Energy Democracy
    • Just Transition
    • Land and Water Grabbing

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