TY  - JOUR
TI  - SUSTAINABILITY IN AGRICULTURE AND ALIENATION IN PEASANTRY: ARGUMENTS DERIVED FROM THE CASE OF TURKEY
AB  - Industrial agriculture, unlike traditional agriculture, relies solely on high yield and profit. All the problemsattributed to it are directly or indirectly linked to this single-purpose nature. However, the industrialization ofagriculture does not proceed only in large holdings belonging the rich farmers: The small holdings, under a multilayeredpressure exerted by large scale capital dominating the input, output and credit markets, also resort to theseproduction methods. This creates a vicious circle through which small-scale producers, due to increasing costs,price volatilities and indebtedness, gradually lose control of their economic activity. Peasants under this pressurehave to use industrial, even prohibited inputs, knowing very well the harm they cause to the environment andconsumers. Additionally, they are perfectly aware that the capital holders controlling the input-output and creditmarkets gain profit by appropriating their labor through price mechanisms. Under these contradictory conditions,agricultural production loses all the traditional meaning attributed to it for the peasant. The peasant is thus alienatedfrom his produce in a way that is similar (but not exactly the same) to worker’s alienation to his labor power. Thisstudy investigates the example provided by Çukurova Region in Turkey to present arguments on the link betweensustainability (or the lack thereof) and peasant alienation.
AU  - özalp, burhan
AU  - Önal, Nevzat Evrim
DO  - 10.14514/BYK.m.26515393.2018.6/2.158-168
PY  - 2018
JO  - Beykoz Akademi Dergisi
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
SN  - 2147-8082
SP  - 158
EP  - 168
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/306481
ER  -