Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil: Frontiers and Fissures of Agro-neoliberalism

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Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris

Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil

Frontiers and Fissures of Agro-neoliberalism

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris

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Routledge
07 August 2017

Agriculture & related industries

Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

Due to new production areas and persistent productivity gains, Brazil has consolidated its position as a global leader and even as a ‘model’ of commercial, integrated crop production. The country is now seen as an agricultural powerhouse that has a lot to offer in terms of reducing the prospect of a looming, increasingly global, food crisis.

Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil focuses on the intensification of Brazilian agribusiness as a privileged entry point into the politicised geography of globalised agri-food. Drawing on rich empirical analysis based around three fieldwork campaigns in the state of Mato Grosso, the book examines the connections between farming, markets and the apparatus of the state. The importance of agribusiness expansion within the wider politico-economic context of Brazilian neoliberalism is demonstrated, thus drawing broader conclusions about the main trends of agribusiness in the world today and providing recommendations for future research.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of agribusiness, neoliberalism and global food production, as well as those interested in Brazil and Latin America more generally.

By: Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781138744660
ISBN 10: 1138744662
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 07 August 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface The Political Ecology of Agri-Food Systems Realising Agro-neoliberalism in Brazil Push and Hold the Agribusiness Frontier The Rent of Agribusiness Displacement, Replacement and Misplacement Poverty in Rich Amazonian Ecosystems Conclusions: Fields of Empty Grains

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University, UK.

Reviews for Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil: Frontiers and Fissures of Agro-neoliberalism

Ioris' theoretically and empirically informed analysis of neoliberal agrifood in Brazil highlights the power, folly, and injustice of contemporary capitalism. The book presents the socioecological implications - both local and global - of bringing central Amazonia into the core of the global economy with disturbing clarity and urgency, leaving chunks stuck in your throat. - Steven Wolf, Professor of Environmental Social Science, Cornell University, USA Back from a reporting trip in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is expanding at a savage pace, I was delighted to discover this book. Ioris is one of the few voices to be analysing from a radical perspective the horrendous social and environmental costs of the commodification of our food. - Sue Branford, former Latin America analyst at the BBC World Service, UK