Global-local interactions in agrochemical industry: Relating trade regulations in Brazil to environmental and spatial restructuring in China

Oliveira, Gustavo de L. T.; He, Canfei; Ma, Jiahui

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102244

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“…First, the structure of the global agrochemical industry has changed radically over the course of the last decade, with important implications for the generic sector in Costa Rica. Industry restructuring driven in part by Chinese industrial policy, coupled with a dearth of new, patented chemistries, has led to a shift in the market share of generic products and the power of generic agrochemical firms globally (Oliveira et al, 2020;Shattuck, 2021). From 2011 to 2019, generic firms' market share grew from 30 to 40 percent, while the share of generic products increased from 50 to 75 percent (PMD, 2021).…”

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Regulation by impasse: Pesticide registration, capital and the state in Costa Rica

Castro-Vargas

Werner

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Costa Rica's prodigious use of pesticides, as well as the burgeoning plantation sector that these agrochemicals support, exacerbates the tensions between extraction and preservation at the heart of the country's development model. We explore these tensions through a study of the country's pesticide registry, the regulatory process to approve active ingredients and formulations for use. After nearly two decades of reform efforts, the registry is widely recognized to be non-functioning: most of the country's pesticides exist in administrative limbo and relatively few new compounds have been approved. Based on extensive interviews and in-depth policy analysis, we construct four phases of reform and use a strategic-relational approach to the state to analyze this process. We conceptualize the registry's gridlock as a form of governance that we term regulation by impasse, an arrangement reproduced through disputes within and between the cognizant ministries, juridical bodies and other regulating authorities, in relation to the shifting strategies and contexts of political economic and wider social forces. We argue that hegemony is tenuously maintained through the registry dispute itself, while revealing the deeply frayed condition of the Costa Rican development model.

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“…He repeated a narrative that reverberated in the press, sector reports, and in interviews conducted by Castro-Vargas with representatives of the agrochemical sector (e.g. Sáenz Segura and Chaves Moreira, 2013; Vargas, 2017). The pesticide registry ‘was collapsed’, he explained.…”

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Regulation by impasse: Pesticide registration, capital and the state in Costa Rica

Castro-Vargas

Werner

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Because different scholars have adopted different theoretical analysis frameworks and metrology models, their conclusions are also inconsistent. In fact, based on different industrial location theories, scholars have studied the influence of spatial, firm and institutional differences on the investment location of enterprises (Brouwer et al, 2004;Oliveira et al, 2020;Pang et al, 2019) and reached diversified conclusions. For example, some researchers found that regions with low prices for raw materials and energy (Mani & Wheeler, 1998), large market sizes (Elert, 2014;Lafontaine et al, 2017), low labor and transportation costs (Brouwer et al, 2004), and high industrial concentrations (Wu et al, 2020) are more attractive to PIIs than other regions.…”

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Investment location dynamics and influencing factors of pollution‐intensive industries in China: A study of chemical firms

Chen

Wei

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Growth and Change

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A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides

Mansfield,

Werner,

Berndt

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The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives also have driven intensification in conventional systems. As an inter-disciplinary network of pesticide scholars, we seek to renew the social science research agenda on pesticides to better understand this suite of contemporary changes. To identify research priorities, challenges, and opportunities, we develop the pesticide complex as a heuristic device to highlight the reciprocal and iterative interactions among agricultural practice, the agrochemical industry, civil society-shaped regulatory actions, and contested knowledge of toxicity. Ultimately, collaborations among social scientists and across the social and biophysical sciences can illuminate recent transformations and their uneven socioecological effects. A reinvigorated critical scholarship that embraces the multifaceted nature of pesticides can identify the social and ecological constraints that drive pesticide use and support alternatives to chemically driven industrial agriculture.

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Global-local interactions in agrochemical industry: Relating trade regulations in Brazil to environmental and spatial restructuring in China

Cited by 11 publications

References 45 publications

Regulation by impasse: Pesticide registration, capital and the state in Costa Rica

Regulation by impasse: Pesticide registration, capital and the state in Costa Rica

Investment location dynamics and influencing factors of pollution‐intensive industries in China: A study of chemical firms

A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides

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