O AGROGOLPE E A POLÍTICA EXTERNA: desmantelo da diplomacia do combate à fome e fortalecimento do agronegócio

Abstract

No início do século XXI, a diplomacia brasileira se tornou uma das principais vozes nos debates internacionais sobre desenvolvimento social da agricultura familiar e sobre o combate à fome. Desde 2016, porém, a coalizão que assumiu o governo vem revertendo os fundamentos daquele projeto em prol de uma inserção subalterna do Brasil nas Relações Internacionais, como mera potência do agronegócio. Este artigo analisa os reflexos do agrogolpe promovido por Michel Temer e seus associados no âmbito da política externa. Conclui-se que a agenda agroalimentar construída nos governos anteriores foi severamente esvaziada e que atores vinculados à agricultura familiar foram alijados do processo de formulação de política externa. Este retrocesso evidencia a supressão do projeto de inserção do Brasil como potência emergente agroalimentar no centro das Relações Internacionais.

“One Single Agriculture”: Dismantling Policies and Silencing Peasant Family Farmers in Brazilian Foreign Policy (2016-2022)

“…The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, strongly supported by the political arm of agribusiness in Congress, the Bancada Ruralista (Castilho 2017), opened the way to the systematic dismantling of peasant agriculture policies. The "governmentality" that seemed to sustain peaceful relations between the two distinct agri-food sectors collapsed to give way to the primacy of agribusiness interests (Welch 2017), with immediate repercussions for the BFP (Lima et al 2018). Such dismantling, we argue, occurred both through symbolic-discursive means (characterized here as a combination of paradigm shift and silencing), and more overt policy-institutional dismantling strategies.…”

The Fight against Hunger in Brazil: From Politicization to Indifference

“…As is argued by Lima, Pereira, and Barbanti (2018: 398), we moved from a “diplomacy to combat hunger” during the Lula da Silva government to a foreign policy that benefited agribusiness in the Temer administration. Whereas the international initiatives under Lula da Silva opened up more opportunities for the representations of family and peasant agriculture and “Brazilian diplomacy has become one of the most important voices in international debates on how to fight hunger,” foreign policy under Temer prioritized the opening of markets for Brazilian commodities in the hands of large agribusiness corporations.…”

Food Procurement in Post-neoliberal Countries: Examples from South America

“…One of the factors that help explain this context is that Dilma Rousseff's impeachment was sponsored, among others, by agribusiness representatives, especially by the Agricultural Parliamentary Front (Frente Parlamentar Agropecuária, FPA), popularly known as the "ruralist caucus" (bancada ruralista). Not surprisingly, authors such as Welch ( 2018), Mitidiero and Feliciano (2018), and Lima et al (2018) have characterized this process as an "agri-coup" (agrogolpe).…”