1st Edition
China's Agricultural Investment in Australia Uneven Geographies of Agri-Food Globalization
Introduction
1. China’s rise as a global investor in food and farming
Part 1: Context
2. Feeding China: Between self-sufficiency and global integration
3. Renegotiating Chinese farmland investments in Australia
4. Who are the Chinese purchasing Australian farmland?
Part 2: Grounded Perspectives
5. Grounding: Placing Chinese agri-food capital in Australian ruralities
6. Accumulation: Rendering farmland investment profitable
7. Articulations: Remaking agri-food chains
Conclusion
8. Beyond the land rush: China, Australia, and the global agri-food system
Appendix
Databank of Chinese investments in Australian agriculture
Biography
Michaela Boehme is the Deputy Managing Director at the Sino-German Agricultural Centre in Beijing, China. She holds a PhD in Global Studies from the University of Leipzig, Germany, and previously she worked as an agribusiness consultant and analyst with a focus on China’s agricultural transformation and its impact on the global agri-food system.
