Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil: Frontiers and Fissures of Agro-neoliberalism, Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris

Автор: Ioris
Название: Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil
ISBN: 1138744662 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138744660
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book will focus on the intensification of Brazilian agribusiness as a privileged entry point into the politicised geography of globalised agri-food. Drawing on rich empirical analysis based around three fieldwork campaigns in the State of Mato Grosso, the book examines the connections between farming, markets and the apparatus of the state.

Автор: Gonzalo Maldonado-Guzman, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Lizeth Itziguery Solano-Romo
Название: Intelligent Agriculture: Developing a System for Monitoring and Controlling Production
ISBN: 1789738466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789738469
Издательство: Emerald
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Описание: Intelligent Agriculture presents a real case study on the development of a state-of-the-art technology, the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), which intends to address fundamental and very current challenges in the agriculture sector using benchmark analysis of the WSN against other similar technologies.

Название: Agricultural Development in Brazil
ISBN: 1138492779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138492776
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Brazilian agriculture has experienced huge transformation over the last decades, and its conflicting facets have fed different and opposing narratives. This book covers the changes, exploring issues including the role of agriculture in the contemporary Brazilian economy, environmental challenges, and the processes of social differentiation.

Автор: Koning Niek
Название: Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth
ISBN: 1138803057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138803053
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Using a political-economic approach supplemented with insights from human ecology, this volume analyzes the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth. The book begins by discussing the nature of preindustrial food crises and the changes that have occurred since the 19th century with the ascent of technical science and the fossil fuel revolution. It explains how these changes improved living standards but that the realization of this improvement was usually dependent on government support for smallholder modernization.

The author sets out how the evolution of food security in different regions has been influenced by farm policy choices and how these choices were shaped by local societal characteristics, international relations and changing configurations in metropolitan countries. Separate chapters are devoted to the interaction of this evolution with debates on food security and economic growth and with international economic policies. The final chapters highlight the new challenges for global food security that will arise as traditional sources of biomass production and the more easily extractable reserves of fossil biomass become depleted or can no longer be used. Overall, the book emphasizes the inadequacy of current explanations with regard to these challenges. It explores what is needed to ensure a sustainable future and calls for a rethinking of these issues; a necessary reflection in today's unstable global political situation.

Автор: Centner
Название: Consumers, Meat and Animal Products
ISBN: 1138365793 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138365797
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book addresses the production practices being employed in the production of food animals and animal products, that enable marketers to sell a variety of products to meet consumer demand.

Автор: Schmidt
Название: The Political Economy of Food and Finance
ISBN: 1138299375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138299375
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The financialization, globalization and industrialization of our food systems make it increasingly difficult to access quality fresh food. In fact, the industrialized global food system is creating products that are less food-like, engendering growing questions about the health and safety of our food supply. In addition, the bio-engineering of food commodities is another factor influencing the growth of industrial farming for an increasingly homogenized, globalized market.

This book describes the financialization process in commodity futures markets which transformed commodities into an asset class. Incorporated into the portfolio decisions of investors, commodity prices now behave like all asset prices, becoming more volatile and subject to periodic bubbles. As commodity prices were driven higher in the 2000s, farmland became more valuable, setting off a global land grab by investors, nations, and corporations. More recently, under the financialization food regime, slow growth and low returns encouraged merger activity driven by private equity firms, with food industry corporations as prime targets, leading to increased industry concentration.

With government policy focused on supporting corporate interests, there has been a global reaction to the current food system. The food sovereignty movement is taking on the interests behind the global land grab, and the regional food movement in cities across the U.S. is hitting corporations at the bottom line. Food corporations are listening. Is the food movement winning?

This book is of interest to those who study political economy, financialization and agriculture and related studies, as well as food systems and commodity future markets.