Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development

by Antônio Márcio Buainain (Editor), Miguel Rocha de Sousa (Editor), Zander Navarro (Editor), Alan Hernandez-Solano (Contribution by), Alberto Valdes (Contribution by)

Overview

Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and how the countries have dealt with the expansion of the world, as a consequence of the world market. The other angle is the social and economic consequences of globalization for agricultural and rural development. The case studies included in this book prove that the contradictory meanings referred above are indeed representative of different facets and features of globalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498542265
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	11/08/2017
Series:	Globalization and Its Costs
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.33(w) x 9.32(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Antônio Márcio Buainain is professor at the Institute of Economics, University of Campinas, Brazil.

Miguel Rocha de Sousa is assistant professor at the University of Évora.

Zander Navarro is researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), in Brazil.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Globalization and Agriculture: Some Observations and Some Questions, by Henry Bernstein
Chapter 2: The Global Driving of Brazilian Agrarian Development in the New Century, Zander Navarro and Antônio Márcio Buainain
Chapter 3: From Food Insecurity to a Global Food Power: Will Brazil Meet Its Potential and World Expectations? by Antônio Márcio Buainain, Alexandre Gori Maia, Junior Ruiz Garcia, and Pedro Abel Vieira
Chapter 4: Globalization, Family Farming and Foreign Trade in Peru: A Preliminary Exploration, by Hector Maletta
Chapter 5: The Mexican Agricultural Sector Two Decades after NAFTA: Expectations, Facts, and Policy Challenges, by Antonio Yunez-Naude and Alan Hernandez-Solano
Chapter 6: The History and Development of The Modernization of Chilean Agriculture Since the 1960s: From Insulation to Globalization, by Alberto Valdes
Chapter 7: Changing Relations of Production of Agriculture in China under Globalization, by Cheng Li
Chapter 8: China’s Food Security Challenges and Its Foreign Trade and Investment Landscape in Agriculture, by Guo Jie
Chapter 9: Modernization of Chinese Agriculture: Economic, Social and Environmental, by Peifen Zhuang, Weiwei Fu, Junlin He, and Rana Muhammad Sohail Jafar
Chapter 10: Impacts Parched Souls and Desiccated Lives: What Is Pushing Indian Farmers to Suicide? by Roopinder Oberoi
Chapter 11: Mozambique’s Embattled Savannah: Brazilian Cooperation and Global Agrarian Disputes, by Lídia Cabral
Chapter 12: Globalization, Agribusiness, and the Liberalization of Agricultural Services in Ghana, by Kojo Amanor
Chapter 13: South Africa—Apartheid, Globalization, and Agriculture, by Luís Brites Pereira, Ana Portugal Melo, Vanessa Duarte, and Miguel Rocha de Sousa

Editorial Reviews

Antônio Márcio Buainain, Miguel Rocha de Sousa and Zander Navarro debate about the global agribusiness situation with lots of interesting and immersive cases of different countries around the world, giving the readers incredible lessons about competitiveness in the industry. The book brings light to some misunderstood concepts about globalization and its relations within the agribusiness industry that emerged by the complex and multidisciplinary themes related to this topic. Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development is obligatory reading for scholars, market professionals, and governments linked to agribusiness.

Marcos Fava Neves

Globalization and Agriculture provides a penetrating analysis of agricultural development in a globalizing world. The editors have assembled an excellent team of authors with deep historical and institutional knowledge of each country. Case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America shed light on the opportunities created by globalization as well as its consequences—both positive and negative. By resisting the overly simplistic generalizations that have characterized much of the debate on globalization, the authors do justice to the complexity of the topic. Researchers and policymakers who work on agriculture in developing countries will benefit greatly from this volume.

Steven Helfand