Kyrgyzstan&apos;s Accession to the EEU: Why Do Apples Matter Anyway?

Deborah Dergousoff, null

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Author(s): Deborah Dergousoff

Publication date (Print): Summer 2017

Journal: World Review of Political Economy

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Keywords: Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), food security, Kyrgyzstan, agrarian political economy

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The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) came into effect in January 2015 with the goal of creating an integrated single market in the Central Asian region. Among the measures Kyrgyzstan needs to adopt for accession is reorganization of the agricultural and agro-processing sector to comply with EEU requirements. With this in mind, I apply a relational conception of food to examine and understand how a capital-dependent agricultural system comes to bear on smallholder production in Kyrgyzstan. Examining apples as relational allows me to illustrate and analyze what is changing, what may be unalterable, and why. My analysis demonstrates how food security and the impact of the EEU on agricultural production can be analyzed and understood so as to grasp the transformative potential of food through processes of abstraction, and to more concretely understand the small states problematic in the broader context of multipolarity.

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[2] Amsler, S. 2007. The Politics of Knowledge in Central Asia: Science between Marx and the Market . London: Routledge.

[3] Cheney, T. 2016. “Historical Materialism and Alternative Food: Alienation, Division of Labour, and the Production of Consumption.” Socialist Studies 11:105–26.

[4] Corcoran-Nantes, Y. 2005. Lost Voices: Central Asian Women Confronting Transition . London: Zed Books.

[5] Cummings, S. N. 2012. Understanding Central Asia: Politics and Contested Transformations . London: Routledge.

[6] Dergousoff, D. 2014. “An Institutional Ethnography of Women Entrepreneurs and Post-Soviet Rural Economies in Kyrgyzstan.” PhD diss., Simon Fraser University.

[7] Dergousoff, D., G. Churokova, and N. Choibekov. 2015. Perceptions about Implications of the Eurasian Economic Union on Food Security in Kyrgyzstan . Bishkek: Central Asian Studies Institute.

[8] Dreyer, I., and N. Popescu. 2014. “The Eurasian Customs Union: The Economics and the Politics.” European Union Institute for Security Studies 11:1–4.

[9] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2015. The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 . Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Fund for Agricultural Development, World Food Programme.

[10] Figueroa, M. 2015. “Food Sovereignty in Everyday Life: Toward a People-Centered Approach to Food Systems.” Globalizations 12 (4): 498–512.

[11] Forum for Food Sovereignty. 2007. Declaration of Nyeleni . Accessed April 16, 2017. https://nyeleni.org/DOWNLOADS/Nyelni_EN.pdf.

[12] Galiakberov, A., and A. Abdullin. 2014. “Theory and Practice of Regional Integration Based on the EurAsEC model (Russian Point of View).” Journal of Eurasian Studies 5 (2): 116–21.

[13] International Fund for Agricultural Development. 2014. “Rural Poverty Portal.” Accessed February 10, 2015. http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/country/statistics/tags/kyrgyzstan.

[14] International Monetary Fund. 2014. “Fact Sheet: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.” In IMF Country Report 2015, 1–158. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund. Accessed June 2, 2017. http://www.imf.org/About/Factsheets/Sheets/2016/08/01/16/32/Poverty-Reduction-Strategy-in-IMF-supported-Programs?pdf=1.

[15] International Monetary Fund. 2016. IMF Country Report: Kyrgyzstan . Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund.

[16] International Organization for Migration. 2013. General Information: Kyrgyzstan . Geneva: International Organization for Migration. Accessed April 16, 2016. https://www.iom.int/countries/kyrgyzstan#fm.

[17] Jarosz, L. 2014. “Comparing Food Security and Food Sovereignty Discourses.” Dialogues in Human Geography 4 (2): 168–81.

[18] Kamal, A. G., R. Linklater, S. Thompson, J. Dipple, and I. M. Committee. 2015. “A Recipe for Change: Reclamation of Indigenous Food Sovereignty in O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation for Decolonization, Resource Sharing, and Cultural Restoration.” Globalizations 12 (4): 559–75.

[19] Kregel, J. A. 2006. “On the Economic Implications of (Mis)understanding Markets in Transition Countries.” In Karl Polanyi in Vienna: The Contemporary Significance of the Great Transformation , vol. 8, edited by K. P. Levitt and K. McRobbie, 108–15. Montreal: Black Rose Books.

[20] Kuehnast, K., and C. Nechemias, eds. 2004. Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition: Nation Building, Economic Survival and Civic Activism . London: John Hopkins University Press.

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[22] McKay, B., and G. Colque. 2016. “Bolivia's Soy Complex: The Development of ‘Productive Exclusion.’” The Journal of Peasant Studies 43 (2): 583–610.

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[26] Moldashev, K., and M. Hassan. 2017. “The Eurasian Union: Actor in the Making?” Journal of International Relations and Development 20: 215–37.

[27] National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2016. Statistics . Accessed February 10, 2015. http://www.stat.kg/en/.

[28] Outhwaite, W., and L. Ray. 2005. Social Theory and Postcommunism . Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

[29] Patel, R. 2009. “Food Sovereignty.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 36 (3): 663–706.

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[33] Tiulegenov, M. 2015. “A Certain Path to an Uncertain Future: Kyrgyzstan's Accession to the Customs Union/Eurasian Economic Union.” FES International Policy Analysis . Accessed June 2, 2017. http://www.sras.org/kyrgyzstan_prepare_eurasian_union.

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[38] White, B., S. M. Borras Jr., R. Hall, I. Scoones, and W. Wolford. 2012. “The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals.” Journal of Peasant Studies 39 (3–4): 619–47.

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[41] Yarashevich, V. 2014. “Post-Communist Economic Integration: Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia.” Journal of Economic Integration 29 (4): 582–623.