Two recently published books—Fairbairn's Fields of Gold and Ouma's Farming as a Financial Asset—now provide the first extensive investigations into finance's engagement with farmland. Both books set out to understand finance's growing interest in farmland from the perspective of the...

Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of this depends on migrating workers for seasonal labour, including from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Latin America....

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. France : traditional centre of fruit and vegetable production -- pt. 3. Spain : symbol and embodiment of industrial agriculture -- pt. 4. Morocco : booming sites of counter-seasonal production -- pt. 5. Conclusion.