“…As Nally (2015: 341) explains, 'Foreign land acquisitions thus became an exit strategy from import dependency by firstly enabling these states to by-pass an increasingly volatile global food economy; and secondly, ensuring access to future food supplies via the vertical integration of primary production' . In addition, as a consequence of this process, the control of expanses of land abroad via transnational corporations imposes an agricultural model in accordance with Western countries' techniques, for instance through the use of biotechnology, which, as Graddy (2014) demonstrates, results in a homogenisation of food globally. In this perspective, controlling territory is a way to foster the manipulation of agricultural practices and genetic life in order to manage a crops' time to flourish and, consequently, to be harvested.…”