Global Capitalism and the Nation State in the Struggles over GM Crops in Brazil

Motta, Renata

doi:10.1111/joac.12165

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“…The role of peasant organizations such as the Landless Movement ( Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra , or MST) was crucial. The MST has been one of the largest grassroots peasant organizations in the world (Motta ). Still, landowners and Monsanto's lobbying won out in legalizing transgenic soybeans.…”

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Transgenic Crops in Latin America: Expropriation, Negative Value and the State

Otero

Lapegna

2016

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This paper introduces a symposium on transgenic crops and neoliberalism in Latin America. We address the question: What is the relationship between the neoliberal food regime and transgenic crops in Latin American agriculture? Our goals are, first, to provide the main conceptual definitions and analytical parameters to contextualize the case studies that follow; and, second, using the findings of our contributors as our empirical stepping stone, to briefly elaborate the concepts of expropriation, accumulation by dispossession and negative value as the primary consequences of the neoliberal food regime. We also offer a brief description of each of the papers in the symposium that follows, linking them to our theoretical proposal. We hope this symposium will help in further exploration of the connection between GM crops and the larger dynamics of capitalist development worldwide.

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Transgenic Crops in Latin America: Expropriation, Negative Value and the State

Otero

Lapegna

2016

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…McMichael (2009) similarly describes the formation of the 'corporate food regime' that results from the influential role of corporations and institutional adjustments in the configuration of the apparatus and market-friendly state policies. In a study dedicated to the Brazilian experience, Motta (2016) further theorizes that the current food regime is fundamentally based on biotechnology, corporate control and neoliberal globalism.…”

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Encroachment and entrenchment of agro-neoliberalism in the Centre-West of Brazil

Ioris

2017

Journal of Rural Studies

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From being a net food importer in recent decades, Brazil is now considered a successful case of agricultural production and export. However, this image of triumph and efficiency helps to conceal growing socio-ecological impacts and mounting uneasiness. The complex and contradictory landscape of contemporary Brazilian agribusiness represent a relevant example of the advance of agro-neoliberalism, which is both an economic and technological process of agriculture modernization and intensification, in accordance to liberalizing pressures, and also a politico-ecological phenomenon centred on market-based solutions to old and new production, innovation and justification questions. Based on qualitative research and three fieldwork campaigns, the article discusses recent politico-economic adjustments particularly in the State of Mato Grosso, in the Centre-West region, which is fast becoming the main area of agribusiness activity in the country. Empirical results demonstrate that agro-neoliberalism has been promoted through inventive public-private associations not for the purpose of domestic food security, but primarily for capital accumulation and to support sectoral interests and macroeconomic strategies.

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“…They interact with nation states as another issue that they must manage in addition to financial markets, territories or technological innovations. Under the third food regime, interactions among actors take place in the dialectic of national and transnational dynamics (see Motta ).…”

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Hegemony, Technological Innovation and Corporate Identities: 50 Years of Agricultural Revolutions in Argentina

Gras

Hernández

2016

Journal of Agrarian Change

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The technological changes that have occurred since the mid-1960s in Argentine agriculture -first the Green Revolution and then the Agribusiness Paradigmhave been conceptualized as revolutionary not only with regard to their productivity improvements but also because they brought with them a change of mentality. Based on two different business conceptions, during each period an agrarian elite led the 'revolutionary' process, offering a technological response as the means of guaranteeing agriculture's 'survival' after various crises. For each period, we can identify a correspondence between the status given to technology, the conception of business and the type of government regulation. This paper analyses how the proposition of a 'technological revolution' corresponds to the construction of the ideological leadership through which the agrarian bourgeoisie managed to orientate agrarian development.

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Global Capitalism and the Nation State in the Struggles over GM Crops in Brazil

Cited by 18 publications

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Transgenic Crops in Latin America: Expropriation, Negative Value and the State

Transgenic Crops in Latin America: Expropriation, Negative Value and the State

Encroachment and entrenchment of agro-neoliberalism in the Centre-West of Brazil

Hegemony, Technological Innovation and Corporate Identities: 50 Years of Agricultural Revolutions in Argentina

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