Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Gras, Carla
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2000-2019
Idioma
spa
Extent
228 p.
Derechos
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
URY
2000-2019
Abstract
This research examines the current configuration of the top of the agricultural sector in Uruguay, focusing on the expansion of agribusiness as the dominant model and the strategies employed by large-scale companies to develop their capital accumulation processes. This study highlights the expansion process of rainfed agriculture, the displacement of pre-existing productive systems and the dynamics of large-scale land concentration. The study is framed within the theory of agro-food regimes, which addresses the relationship between agriculture, capitalism and power in the production and distribution of food. It also contributes to the debate about the structuring of agrarian social classes in the Uruguayan agricultural sector and their placement in the global circuits of accumulation. In order to analyze this phenomenon, this research draws upon an extensive fieldwork conducted over 2017 and 2019, which collected information about 26 large-scale agricultural companies. Although the analytical corpus focuses on the features of large-scale agribusinesses in their contemporary version, the research’s time frame covers the period 20002019, allowing us to observe the trajectories of large-scale companies during what we call the “soybean cycle”. The results reveal that large-scale agricultural companies form a multiform group in which both national and foreign companies are relevant in the dynamics of land grabbing and land control. The research allows us to affirm that the growth of these companies was not only limited to land acquisition, but it also involved various forms of control in addition to ownership. Among them, we can distinguish flexible and centralized systems of capital accumulation, allowing them to deploy differential strategies to sustain their levels of accumulation when the production conditions change (mainly in the economic and ecological dimensions). The paper develops an exhaustive analysis of the role of the Uruguayan state, which played a leading role in allowing largescale land control to take place.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales