Agricultural Development in Brazil: The Rise of a Global Agro-Food Power

ISBN-13: 9781138492776 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str.

Antonio Marcio Buainain; Rodrigo Lanna; Zander Navarro

Opis

Brazilian agriculture has experienced huge transformation over the last decades, and its conflicting facets have fed different and opposing narratives. This book covers the changes, exploring issues including the role of agriculture in the contemporary Brazilian economy, environmental challenges, and the processes of social differentiation.

Spis treści

List of editors and contributors.  Abbreviations and acronyms.  Introduction.  1. Agriculture, industry, and the economy: from extensive farming to a global agro-food power.  2. Rural Brazil: the demise of its agrarian past, 1968-2018.  3. Agricultural development in Brazil: the role of agricultural policies.  4. The restructuring of Brazilian agri-chains: the role of value chains.   5. Global competitiveness of the Brazilian agri-food sector: strategies and policies.  6. Innovation and development of Brazilian agriculture: research, technology, and institutions.  7. Bioenergy and biofuels in Brazil.  8. Agriculture and the environment: a conflictive and ambiguous antinomy in recent Brazilian development.  9. Rural Brazil: a social and economic space without farmers?.  10. Employment and forms of occupation in rural Brazil: from minifundio-latifundio to regulated rural labour market.  11. The fate of family farming under the new pattern of agrarian development in Brazil.  12. Structural heterogeneity in rural Brazil: three regional cases.  13. Challenges of current land governance in Brazil: beyond the historical, political and social demands for land reform.  14. Intellectual trajectories about the Brazilian agrarian transition.  References. Index