Modern Monoculture and Periphery Processes: a World Systems Analysis of the Brazilian soy expansion from 2000-2012

Soendergaard, Niels

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“…In Brazil, 91.8% of soybean seeds grown are GMO (transgenic) and the Brazilian GMO seed market is dominated by foreign corporations, specifically, Germany's Bayer, which holds a 90% market share (Soendergaard, 2018). Two-thirds of the profit from the final soybean seed price stays with the multinational licensor, while the remaining 35% goes to seed producers, since they pay royalties for the use of patented GMOs (Marin and Stubrin, 2015).…”

Section: Seedsmentioning

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Missing the Target: Brazil's Agricultural Policy Indirectly Subsidizes Foreign Investments to the Detriment of Smallholder Farmers and Local Agribusiness

Corcioli

Medina

Arrais

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Currently there is controversy about the effect of direct foreign investment in the Brazilian agricultural sector, mainly due to the impact it has on small farmers, land use, the environment, and food security. In this context, Brazil finds itself in an even more delicate situation, since in order to remain a bulwark of the economy, Brazilian agribusiness depends heavily on public policies that directly impact its treasury. This suggests there is an indirect transfer of public resources to transnational companies involved in agribusiness production chains. This paper assesses the allocation of agricultural credits in Brazil and the market share held by Brazilian groups, vis-à-vis multinational corporations in the agribusiness supply chains. The study was carried out analyzing the three largest supply chains established in the country: soybean, corn, and cattle. Results reveal that 75% of the operating credit (crédito de custeio), which represents 60% of the total government credit in Brazil, goes directly to soybean, corn, and cattle farmers. Most of this subsidized credit budget goes to the soybean farmers, which are mostly encompassed by large farmers. Results also reveal that 76.1% of the soybean supply chain in Brazil is controlled by foreign multinational corporations. These findings suggest that resources invested in large farmers that take part in supply chains controlled by multinational foreign groups end up indirectly financing foreign companies to the detriment of local smallholder farmers and domestic agribusiness. This highlights the need for restructuring Brazilian agricultural policy in favor of family farmers and domestic agribusiness.

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Section: Seedsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Missing the Target: Brazil's Agricultural Policy Indirectly Subsidizes Foreign Investments to the Detriment of Smallholder Farmers and Local Agribusiness

Corcioli

Medina

Arrais

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…These difficulties around reforming soy production must be situated within what is now a wider set of struggles. As Soendergaard (2018) notes, growing reliance on fertilisers in Brazilian soy monocultures has led to struggles between “land grabbing” agri‐businesses (McMichael, 2012) and indigenous communities. As a notable example, in 2010 geologists discovered a significant potash deposit near Autazes, a municipality in the Amazon basin west of the Madeira River.…”

Section: Situating Soy In the Third Regimementioning

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Planetary food regimes: Understanding the entanglement between human and planetary health in the Anthropocene

Beacham

2021

Geographical Journal

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“…Com isso, admite-se que a perspectiva de Análise dos Sistemas-Mundo tende a silenciar as possibilidades e capacidades de agência que o país possui perante as janelas de oportunidade que ocasionalmente se abrem em diferentes momentos e circunstâncias históricas (Soendergaard, 2018 (Arrighi, 1997), e pelo fato de atualmente a exploração de commodities primárias também envolver atividades de ciência, tecnologia e inovação e uso intensivo de capital.…”

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“…Porém, no que se refere ao comércio internacional do principal produto exportado pelo Brasil (i.e., a soja), observa-se baixo nível de agregação de valor, com o produto exportado em sua maneira mais básica, além de forte presença externa de inputs e outputs na estrutura mercantil (Soendergaard, 2018). Trata-se de um processo multifacetado e multidimensional, e dessa combinação deriva a condição semiperiférica do país.…”

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A reprimarização das exportações brasileiras em perspectiva histórica de longa duração

Lopes

2020

Rev. Carta Inter.

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As exportações brasileiras vêm passando por um processo denominado “reprimarização”, no qual as exportações de produtos primários passaram a superar as de produtos manufaturados. As principaisanálises apontam para causas de curta duração, sejam elas endógenas, como políticas cambiais, ou externas ao Brasil, como o efeito chinês no “boom” das commodities. Procurando contribuir para o debate sobre esse fenômeno, o presente artigo busca identificar o comportamento das exportações brasileiras na longa duração, resgatando dados estatísticos do comércio internacional de 1808 até 2019, tendo como cenário a histórica inserção periférica do Brasil na Divisão Internacional do Trabalho desde o período colonial, condicionando a economia-política brasileira para a especialização em produtos primários de menor valor agregado. Com isso, constatou-se que a especialização em produtos primários nas exportações do Brasil tem sido a regra desde 1808, sendo a exceção o período de 1979 a 2009, quando o país exportou percentualmente mais produtos manufaturados, retornando para o padrão primário-exportador e permanecendo assim até a atualidade.

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Modern Monoculture and Periphery Processes: a World Systems Analysis of the Brazilian soy expansion from 2000-2012

Abstract: Abstract:The article treats the broader socio-environmental and economic implications of the expansion in Brazilian soy production, during the period from [2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008][2009][2010][2011][2012]

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Missing the Target: Brazil's Agricultural Policy Indirectly Subsidizes Foreign Investments to the Detriment of Smallholder Farmers and Local Agribusiness

Missing the Target: Brazil's Agricultural Policy Indirectly Subsidizes Foreign Investments to the Detriment of Smallholder Farmers and Local Agribusiness

Planetary food regimes: Understanding the entanglement between human and planetary health in the Anthropocene

A reprimarização das exportações brasileiras em perspectiva histórica de longa duração

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