Grabbing farming citizenship in the Middle East. Peasant realities of land and water and their disconnections

Following the large-scale industrialization of agriculture, the commodi cation of land and water and the “super-green revolution” based on intensive irrigation, agriculture has radically changed in the Middle East: a global disjuncture has increasingly taken place at the local level between the farmers or those who produce food, the consumers and their territories, and the cultures and ‘agri-cultures’. Agriculture has been seen as a mere economic and technical sector, representing small farmers out of political settings in their patterns of land and water use, and thus transcending local realities and inequalities in development policies. rough some cases from Jordan elds and “battle elds”, di erent patterns of disjunc- ture, which are at the core of inequalities and dependencies of small farmers, will be highlighted.