Agriculture And Industry In Brazil
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| Author | : Albert Fishlow |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2020-08-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0231549520 |
Agriculture and Industry in Brazil is a study of the economics of Brazilian agriculture and industry, with a special focus on the importance of innovation to productivity growth. Albert Fishlow and José Eustáquio Ribeiro Vieira Filho examine technological change in Brazil, highlighting the role of public policy in building institutions and creating an innovation-oriented environment. Fishlow and Vieira Filho tackle the theme of innovation from various angles. They contrast the relationship between state involvement and the private sector in key parts of the Brazilian economy and compare agricultural expansion with growth in the oil and aviation sectors. Fishlow and Vieira Filho argue that modern agriculture is a knowledge-intensive industry and its success in Brazil stems from public institution building. They demonstrate how research has played a key role in productivity growth, showing how prudent innovation policies can leverage knowledge not only within a particular company but also across whole sectors of the economy. The book discusses whether and how Brazil can serve as a model for other middle-income countries eager to achieve higher growth and a more egalitarian distribution of income. An important contribution to comparative, international, and development economics, Agriculture and Industry in Brazil shows how the public success in agriculture became a prototype for advance elsewhere.
| Author | : Antônio Márcio Buainain |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2020-12-18 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780367729073 |
In the last few decades, Brazilian agriculture has experienced a seismic transformation, and its contradictory facets have fed different and opposing narratives regarding recent changes. This book covers these changes, exploring the issues from several empirical and analytical angles, including the role of agriculture in the contemporary Brazilian economy, the dynamics of Brazilian agricultural value chains, environmental challenges and the processes of social differentiation. Brazilian agriculture continues to be viewed in the international literature, either through the lenses of the past century - those of former problems relating to land use and land tenure - or apologetically. This collection of essays aims at updating the current interpretations, providing objective accounting of the main transformations, its determinants, results, contradictions and limitations. As it covers the most relevant traits of Brazilian agricultural and rural development, the book will provide the reader with an encompassing view of contemporary Brazilian agriculture, including the positive and negative sides of the so-called tropical agriculture revolution. It highlights the tremendous economic potential as well as the continuing structural heterogeneity, concentration of production and marginalization of millions of small farmers. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book will be perfect for all those interested in learning about Brazilian agriculture. It will be of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students of economic development, agricultural economics, rural sociology, comparative economic development, rural development and agricultural policies.
| Author | : Paulo André Niederle |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2020-10-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1000217647 |
This book explores the agrifood system transitions in Brazil to provide a new understanding of the trajectory of agriculture and rural development in this country. It accentuates the increasing diversifi cation and hybridization of food production and consumption practices throughout history. With a framework that combines convention theory, neoinstitutional approaches and practice theory, this book suggests the concept of “food orders” which represents different arrangements of practices, institutions and sociotechnical artifacts. By exploring the interrelations between these elements, the book looks at six different food orders: industrial, commercial, domestic, aesthetic, civic and fi nancial, in tandem with examples of practices, sectors and territories to understand the dynamics of each one. This aids in understanding the main tendencies of the agrifood sector in such a vast country that, being a major player in global food markets, also affect production and consumption dynamics in several other countries. Besides, this book also seeks to comprehend the current institutional changes in Brazil that may be critical to interpret the global dissemination of populist and autocratic governments. Offering key insights into the contemporary sociology of agriculture and food, this book demonstrates how strengthening democracy and supporting the organization of civil society are major challenges when we think about transition for sustainable food systems.
| Author | : Mariano Turzi |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2016-11-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3319459465 |
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the political economy of soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, by identifying the dominant private and public actors and control mechanisms that have given rise to a corporate-driven, vertically integrated system of regionalized agricultural production in the Southern Cone of South America. The current agricultural boom surrounding soybean production has been aided by aggressive new agro-technologies, including biotechnology, leading to massive organizational changes in the agricultural sector and a significant rise in the power of special interest groups and corporations. Despite having similar initial production conditions, the pattern of economic activity surrounding soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, continues to be largely determined by the needs of the multinational corporations involved, rather than national considerations of comparative advantage. The author uses these findings to argue that the new international model of agricultural production empowers chemical and trading multinational companies over national governments.
| Author | : Akio Hosono |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 423 |
| Release | : 2016-01-26 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1137431350 |
Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book explores how and by what Brazil achieved inclusive and sustainable growth in the Cerrado.
| Author | : Lael Brainard |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2009-09-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0815703651 |
In Brazil, the confluence of strong global demand for the country's major products, global successes for its major corporations, and steady results from its economic policies is building confidence and even reviving dreams of grandeza—the greatness that has proven elusive in the past. Even as the current economic crisis tempers expectations of the future, the trends identified in this book suggest that Brazil will continue its path toward becoming a leading economic power in the future. Once seen as an economic backwater, Brazil now occupies key niches in energy, agriculture, service industries, and even high technology. Yet Latin America's largest nation still struggles with endemic inequality issues and deep-seated ambivalence toward global economic integration. Scholars and policy practitioners from Brazil, the United States, and Europe recently gathered to investigate the present state and likely future of the Brazilian economy. This important volume is the timely result. In Brazil as an Economic Superpower? international authorities focus on five key topics: agribusiness, energy, trade, social investment, and multinational corporations. Their analyses and expertise provide not only a unique and authoritative picture of the Brazilian economy but also a useful lens through which to view the changing global economy as a whole.
| Author | : Alessandro Bonanno |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2019-09-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1498589901 |
State Capitalism under Neoliberalism analyzes State capitalism in agri-food under neoliberalism and investigates State-sponsored actions designed to counter the negative consequences of the implementation of free-market policies and strategies. In particular, it probes efforts of the Brazilian State to respond to the neoliberalization and corporatization of agriculture and food. Between 2003 and 2016, the left leaning Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) governed Brazil, which claimed to support landless peasants, family farming, food sovereignty, and State regulation of the unwanted consequences of the evolution of free market capitalism. The contributors analyze these actions of the Brazilian State, stressing its accomplishments and limits, and argue that the emancipatory actions of the Brazilian State engendered a complex and contradictory set of results which show that State capitalism is a problematic solution to the problems generated by the global neoliberal regime.
| Author | : Herbert S. Klein |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 437 |
| Release | : 2020-03-12 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1108489028 |
The first social history examining all aspects of Brazil's radical transition from a predominantly rural society to an urban one.
| Author | : Walter Belik |
| Publisher | : University of London Press |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Describes the worldwide food industry's new phase (which developed in the 1980s and is called post-fordist) and its current effects on Brazil. In this phase, new sources of capital arose, new fields of investment appeared and Brazilian companies merged with foreign companies. This paper describes the origins of the food industry in Brazil; discusses the performance of agro-industry, chiefly food production, in the context of Brazilian heavy industrialization in the post-war era; presents the latest movements in the Brazilian food system; stresses the main aspects of the restructuring of the food industry in the developed countries; and assesses conditions in Brazil in relation to the new configuration of the worldwide food industry.
| Author | : Joaquim Nabuco |
| Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
