Author: Alexander T.M. Dubb

A young researcher based in South Africa focused on the development of South Africa’s sugar and poultry industries. Born in the United States in 1985, he completed his secondary education in South Africa in 2004, receiving a BA(Hons.) in Development Studies from Rhodes University in 2008, and in 2013 completed his Mphil cum laude in Land and Agrarian Studies through the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Following his Mphil, he published two several single-authored articles on the South African sugar industry and small-scale sugarcane production in Journal of Agrarian Change (2016) and Land Use Policy (2015), a further critique of theories of contract-farming in Journal of Agrarian Change (2018), acted as a key partner and contributor to a special issue on the development of the sugar industry in Southern African in Journal of Southern African Studies (2017), and further contributed to an article on social reproduction in South Africa more broadly, published in Journal of Peasant Studies (2018). He has further provided support in the collection and analysis of homestead-level data series of colleague researchers. He has since been focused on completing his doctoral thesis on South Africa’s ‘Grain-Livestock-Complex’, particularly the development of the South African poultry industry, its conditioning by the regulation of grain production, its relation to household food and social security, and its position within the development of South African agro-industry more broadly. He also played bass in a short-lived Cape Town folk-rock band. His email address is: alexander.dubb@gmail.com