Embedded Promissory Futures: The Rise of Networked Agribusiness in Argentina’s Bioeconomy

Delvenne, Pierre

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55651-2_10

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“…3. More details about this context, and a more extensive version of these arguments, can be found in Delvenne (2017). 4.…”

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Suspended commodification: assetization and the politics of silobolsa in Argentine soybean agriculture

Delvenne

2020

Journal of Cultural Economy

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Based on a rich empirical description of processes of soybean commodification in Argentina, the article puts a neglected technological device at the centre of the analysis: 'silobolsas,' allowing farmers to conserve their harvest in plastic bags with specific properties. Storing soybeans in 'silobolsas' opens up the possibility of (precariously) preserving their value or holding up commercial exchanges waiting for better conditions. The politics of silobolsa exhibits that commodities and assets nestle beside each other, but also incorporate each other's characteristics, change into each other, or confuse different actors about their commodity-versus-asset identities. Three particular contributions to the existing literature on commodities can be singled out: first, immobility can be as illuminating as movement to make sense of the sociotechnical context of commodities. Second, the lack of exchange is a form of politics that participates in the social practices configuring the value of commodities. Third, complex temporal processes of commodification and assetization can significantly mark the social life of the same 'thing.' These findings speak to the most recent mutations of contemporary capitalism that is itself increasingly characterized by the (re)configuration of a range of things as assets or capitalized property.

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“…3. More details about this context, and a more extensive version of these arguments, can be found in Delvenne (2017). 4.…”

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Suspended commodification: assetization and the politics of silobolsa in Argentine soybean agriculture

Delvenne

2020

Journal of Cultural Economy

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“…Existing studies examining bioeconomy in South America have focussed to a large extent on the most prominent bioeconomy sectors, notably biotechnology and agribusiness in Argentina (Arancibia, 2013; Delvenne, 2017; Tittor, 2021) or biofuels in Brazil (Backhouse and Lorenzen, 2021; Bastos Lima, 2021: 89–122). A key concern noted by these studies is that the large‐scale intensive agricultural production in these South American bioeconomic sectors perpetuates existing inequalities in terms of income, job opportunities, regional development, concentration of political power, and access to land, technology and knowledge, while aggravating environmental problems such as soil degradation, loss of biodiversity and water availability and quality.…”

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“…According to the vision set out by this network, bioeconomy in Argentina is based on the already established agricultural products, and especially soybean and its by‐products, and the use of new agricultural technologies (Trigo et al, 2015a). Bioeconomy is also presented as a way of crossing the perceived divide between agriculture and industry (Delvenne, 2017).…”

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“…With the arrival of the new government in 2019, bioeconomy remained part of the policy agenda. So far no new policy strategy has been released, but aside from the dominant bioeconomy network, policymakers also instrumentally use the concept to try to re-territorialise economic activities by promoting regional bioeconomies in different provinces of Argentina (Delvenne, 2017) mainly related to the agri-food and the forestry sector. In some cases, these sectors are engaged in circular economy activities, the transformation of waste into bioenergy and the application of biotechnology to transform available regional bio-mass.…”

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Fostering Transitions Towards Sustainability? The Politics of Bioeconomy Development in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil

Siegel

Deciancio

Kefeli

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Bull Latin American Res

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The concept of bioeconomy is increasingly gaining attention in South America as a potential strategy to foster sustainability transitions. As bioeconomy development is intertwined with often contested questions of natural resource governance, it is important that the promotion of bioeconomy takes place in an inclusive manner. In three case studies from Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil we examine who takes up the concept, what interests are reflected in this and the implications for socio-environmental concerns. This points to two interrelated aspects which demonstrate variations in inclusiveness: the constellation of actors who drive bioeconomy visions, and the scope of issues covered.

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Making a Place for Alternative Technologies: The Case of Agricultural Bio‐Inputs in Argentina

Goulet

Hubert

2020

Review of Policy Research

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This article characterizes the ways in which the actors in charge of designing and implementing public policies intervene to promote the emergence of alternatives to problematic technologies. It is based on a case study conducted in Argentina that focuses on initiatives to promote the development of biological agricultural inputs in the context of increasingly controversial chemical inputs. The study spotlights the political, institutional, and semantic efforts made by policy makers and public administrations to ensure these new inputs find their way into organizations and onto their agendas. Their work consists in attenuating the boundaries between chemical and biological inputs, and reducing opposition by creating categories and organizations that downplay potential dissension and highlight the possible coexistence of technological paradigms. Contrary to what the injunctions of technological substitution suggest, we show that putting alternative technologies on the public agenda depends largely on their inclusion in institutional and regulatory infrastructures originally designed for technologies that are likely to decline. More broadly, it relies on the construction of continuity between the two types of technologies.

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Embedded Promissory Futures: The Rise of Networked Agribusiness in Argentina’s Bioeconomy

Cited by 6 publications

References 24 publications

Suspended commodification: assetization and the politics of silobolsa in Argentine soybean agriculture

Suspended commodification: assetization and the politics of silobolsa in Argentine soybean agriculture

Fostering Transitions Towards Sustainability? The Politics of Bioeconomy Development in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil

Making a Place for Alternative Technologies: The Case of Agricultural Bio‐Inputs in Argentina

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