World food futures — growth with redistribution?

Seeding a narrow future and harvesting an exclusionary past: The contradictions and future scenarios of agro-neoliberalism in Brazil

“…Here we offer a critical investigation into the implementation of neoliberal agricultural policies, using Brazil as a relevant case study, considered as the realization and culmination of the encroachment of capitalist relations of production upon agri-food systems. The need to feed a large, hungry population has been on the agenda of international development for many decades (see Borgstrom, 1969), although in the 1970s it became evident that the problem was not merely quantitative, but significant reforms were required (Rush et al, 1978). Since the end of the 1980s, the work led by multilateral agencies such as the World Bank has tried to reconcile agricultural economic growth and the reduction of rural poverty with incentives and institutional adjustments aimed to increase land productivity and the promotion of free trade and land markets (Pereira, 2015).…”