Mark Vicol

I am Associate Professor of Agrarian Sociology in the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. My research and teaching focuses on the everyday political economy of agrarian change and the politics of agricultural transitions. I am primarily interested in how class processes manifest in everyday agrarian life. Within this framing, my research interests include the changing relationship between land, agriculture and livelihoods; the implications of global value chains for rural development; labour regimes and labour politics; the politics of agricultural value chain development interventions; the political economy of contract farming; the everyday political economy of food insecurity and nutrition; the politics of agroecology and other alternatives; and broader political economy questions about the future of farming.