"Profits to the Danes, for Us--Hog Stench?" The Campaign against Danish Swine CAFOs in Rural Lithuania

Autor/in	Juska, Arunas
Titel	"Profits to the Danes, for Us--Hog Stench?" The Campaign against Danish Swine CAFOs in Rural Lithuania
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 26 (2010) 3, S.250-259 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2009.12.003
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Rural Population; Corporations; Animal Husbandry; Agribusiness; Economic Change; International Trade; Activism; Policy Analysis; Rural Environment; Rural Economics; Economic Factors; Agricultural Production; Political Attitudes; Environmental Influences; Europe; Lithuania; North America + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Landbevölkerung; Unternehmen; Tierhaltung; Agrarindustrie; Ökonomischer Wandel; Trade; International relations; Handel; Internationale Beziehungen; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Politikfeldanalyse; Ländliches Milieu; Ökonomischer Faktor; Agriculture; Production; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Europa; Litauen; Nordamerika
Abstract	The paper analyzes a grass-roots campaign to limit the expansion of Danish-owned industrial hog operator Saerimner in Lithuania. The industrialization of livestock production as well as local responses to the restructuring of meat production are interpreted within the broader context of the incorporation of peripheral regions into global agro-food markets. Unlike in Western Europe and North America where the industrialization of hog production is proceeded by the displacement of small hog producers, in Eastern Europe the expansion of multinational corporations is occurring by the buying up, retrofitting and modernizing of factory-farms inherited from the socialist-era. It is argued that the bitter environmental legacy of Soviet-era factory farming has shaped rural population responses to the new wave of multinational acquisitions in the region. Anti-corporate hog campaigning is analyzed within the context of growing activism among rural constituencies displaced from commercial agriculture. The importance of effective organization and leadership in grass-roots activism is emphasized as well as the growing role of non-farming interests is shaping the rural policies of the country. (As Provided).
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