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The Political Economy of Agricultural Booms
Managing Soybean Production in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay
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eBook - PDF
The Political Economy of Agricultural Booms
Managing Soybean Production in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay
About this book
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the political economy of soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, by identifying the dominant private and public actors and control mechanisms that have given rise to a corporate-driven, vertically integrated system of regionalized agricultural production in the Southern Cone of South America. The current agricultural boom surrounding soybean production has been aided by aggressive new agro-technologies, including biotechnology, leading to massive organizational changes in the agricultural sector and a significant rise in the power of special interest groups and corporations. Despite having similar initial production conditions, the pattern of economic activity surrounding soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, continues to be largely determined by the needs of the multinational corporations involved, rather than national considerations of comparative advantage. The author uses these findings to argue that the new international model of agricultural production empowers chemical and trading multinational companies over national governments.
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Table of contents
- The Political Economy of Agricultural Booms
- 1 The International Political Economy of Agriculture
- 2 A Super-Seeding Business
- 3 Global Trading
- 4 Coordination: Brazil
- 5 Colonization: Paraguay
- 6 Confrontation (…and Beyond): Argentina
- Conclusion
- Annex 1. Agricultural Forward and Backward Linkages
- Annex 2. Geographic Distribution of Soybean Production in the Soybean Republics
- References
- Index
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