Farm Subsidies and the Green Transition - Kai Heron

Brexit produced a once a generation chance to create a wholesale reform of agricultural subsidies. Kai Heron works through what the England's new farm subsidy plan reveals about the politics of food system transformation. 

Episode Links

• Kai Heron on Twitter
• You can’t eat profits: A democratic vision for England’s tormented farmlands. The New Statesman. By Kai Heron, Alex Heffron and Rob Booth
• Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition.  Spectre Journal. Kai Heron and Jodi Dean
• ELMS description from DEFRA
• Indonesian farm workers in the UK and debt bondage
• History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
• WWF FOI on UK’s climate targets
• Eric Ross, The Malthus Factor
• US food policy and Haitian rice
• Women: The Last Colony: Maria Mies,  Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, Claudia von Werlhof
• The Classical Agrarian Question: Myth, Reality and Relevance Today: Sam Moyo
• On carbon markets and their overhype: The Value of a Whale, Buller
• Sustain on ELMs
• Climate apartheid
• Mark Fisher Capitalist Realism
• Rosa Luxemburg Reform or Revolution
• Nancy Fraser on Polanyi
• Maria Mies on subsistence
• Public Common Partnerships, Commonwealth
• Kai on the banana discourse
• Right to Roam campaign England

Landscapes is produced by Adam Calo. A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s newsletter: Land Food Nexus  

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Music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Kilkerrin” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).