ABSTRACT
Agriculture constitutes one of the core areas in which marginalization plays out globally as it revolves around the production of one of the basic capacities of life: food (Shiva & Bedi, 2002). The dominance and control over the agricultural and food sectors is carried out in contemporary neoliberal hegemony through the development and implementation of global policies that continue to reify structural inequities in food production and food distribution. Much of the political economy in the agricultural and food sectors revolve around the influence of global policies and the hegemony of transnational corporations that dominate the production, distribution and exchange of food and food products (Josling, Tangermann, & Warley, 1996). The goal of this chapter is to examine the ways in which the margins are created in the agricultural sector, through the implementation and propagation of neoliberal policies in agriculture. Who controls the sites of agricultural production? Who controls the discursive spaces of policy-making that determines the material bases of agricultural production? Who benefits from the dominant markers of modernity that are mobilized in the agricultural sector with the promises of development? What are the margins that are produced through dominant globalization discourses and interventions?
