War on Small Scale Farming: Financialization and Marginalization

In the last 20 years the cost of land for farms has doubled to quadrupled, depending on whether the country is in central Eastern Europe, England or the United States.

Agricultural commodity speculators and their derivatives have bought out small farmers and then leased the land back to them. Small scale farming is being squeezed to the margins of capitalist state.

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