A pluralist and pragmatist critique of food regime’s genealogy: varieties of social orders in Brazilian agriculture

Niederle, Paulo André

doi:10.1080/03066150.2017.1313238

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“…Over the past two decades, social movements aiming at hindering the expansion of the corporate food regime have been engaged in initiatives for the construction of new food markets. Rather than defeating "the Market", as a significant number of social movements opposing capitalism proclaim, the focus is now on building new circuits of commerce [35]. This change brought with it a reinterpretation of the markets that is coherent with the emergence of the new economic sociology, a discipline in which markets are not an impersonal mechanism of exchange, but political and cultural arenas where actors dispute not only the distribution of monetary value, but also the very recognition of their identities, values and lifestyles.…”

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Agri-Food Markets towards Agroecology: Tensions and Compromises Faced by Small-Scale Farmers in Brazil and Chile

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One of the main dilemmas faced by small-scale farmers’ movements advocating for agroecology in Latin America lies in the trade-offs between the economic opportunities arising from the organic food market expansion, and the political principles at the core of their action. To provide insights on this issue, a survey was performed in Brazil and Chile. Between March 2016 and December 2018, data were collected through direct and participant observation, documentary analysis, and interviews conducted to peasant organizations’ leaders, technicians and policymakers. In Brazil, the research focused on the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (The Landless Movement); while in Chile, due to the absence of such a national social movement, it considered a wider set of actors, including the Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Agropecuario (National Institute for Agricultural Development). The results show how social movements are navigating between the mainstreaming pressures of the conventional markets, dominated by the leading agri-food corporations, and the political efforts they have been doing to build civic food markets as alternatives to conventionalization patterns. Finally, we argue that social scientists should better explain the tensions and compromises the social movements go through in order to coordinate different and complementary marketing strategies.

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“…Some critics allege that the concept itself is ill equipped to imagine and inform efforts at social change because it is overly “structural, universalizing, and homogenizing” (Niederle 2018 , p. 1460) and places “excessive weight on processes of hegemonic regime formation, crisis, and succession” (Wilkinson and Goodman 2018 , p. 2). Some have proposed, similarly to Friedmann ( 2016 ) that food regime analysis could be reformulated to more fully recognize multiple, and perhaps contradictory, processes at work in the food system, including a complex relationship between transnational corporations and the state (Niederle 2018 ; Pritchard et al 2019 ; Werner 2019 ). Such a multivalent approach can usefully broaden the role of the food regime concept beyond understanding the role of the food system in capital accumulation.…”

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Feeding relations: applying Luhmann’s operational theory to the food system

Guptill

Peine

2021

Agric Hum Values

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“…In Brazil, claims for more or less substantial changes to family-farming public policies have been the focus of debates among social movements, researchers, and public officials in recent years. Despite advancements in terms of institutionalization (e.g., Family Farming Law) and innovations, mainly in territorial and food security policies, the coexistence of different referentials guiding the design and implementation of these policies has exacerbated the contradictions of rural development (Niederle 2018). To some extent, family farming is victim of its own success.…”

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Narrative Disputes over Family-Farming Public Policies in Brazil: Conservative Attacks and Restricted Countermovements

Niederle

Picolotto

Soldera

2019

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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This article analyzes the conservative narratives underlying current changes in Brazilian rural development public policies. It first presents an overview of the recognition and institutionalization of family farming and the main policies created in support of this segment. Subsequently, it discusses how a conservative narrative started to question the ability of these policies to integrate family farmers into modern agricultural markets. Focusing on how this narrative tries to legitimate a new "referential" for public action, the article analyzes the discourse on newly occurring segregation between agricultural policies for productive farmers and social policies for unproductive ones. It demonstrates how this discourse excludes family farmers from the social pact that prevailed over the past three decades and depended on the state as an actor to mediate the contradictions in the unstable coexistence of agribusiness and family-farming logics. Finally, it analyzes how rural social movements are reacting to this process.Este artigo analisa as narrativas conservadoras que sustentam as atuais mudanças nas políticas públicas de desenvolvimento rural no Brasil. Em primeiro lugar, analisa o processo de reconhecimento e institucionalização da agricultura familiar e das principais políticas criadas para este segmento. Em seguida, discute como uma narrativa conservadora começou a questionar a capacidade destas políticas de integrar os agricultores familiares aos modernos mercados agrícolas. Discutindo como esta narrativa busca legitimar um novo referencial de ação pública, o artigo crítica uma nova segregação entre políticas agrícolas para os agricultores "produtivos" e políticas sociais para os "improdutivos". Os resultados demonstram como este discurso exclui os agricultores familiares do pacto social que prevaleceu nas últimas três décadas e que dependeu do Estado como ator para mediar as contradições da coexistência instável entre a lógica do agronegócio e da agricultura familiar. Por fim, discute como os movimentos sociais rurais reagem a esse processo.

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A pluralist and pragmatist critique of food regime’s genealogy: varieties of social orders in Brazilian agriculture

Cited by 29 publications

References 72 publications

Agri-Food Markets towards Agroecology: Tensions and Compromises Faced by Small-Scale Farmers in Brazil and Chile

Agri-Food Markets towards Agroecology: Tensions and Compromises Faced by Small-Scale Farmers in Brazil and Chile

Feeding relations: applying Luhmann’s operational theory to the food system

Narrative Disputes over Family-Farming Public Policies in Brazil: Conservative Attacks and Restricted Countermovements

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