Globalization and Agriculture

Redefining Unequal Development

Contributions by Alan Hernandez-Solano, Alberto Valdes, Alexandre Gori Maia, Ana Portugal Melo, Antonio Marcio Buainain, Antonio Yunez-Naude, Cheng Li, Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi, Guo Jie, Hector Maletta, Henry Bernstein, Junior Ruiz Garcia, Junlin He, Kojo Amanor, Lídia Cabral, Luís Brites Pereira, Miguel Rocha de Sousa, Pedro Abel Vieira, Rana Muhammad Sohail Jafar, Peifen Zhuang, Roopinder Oberoi, Vanessa Duarte, Weiwei Fu, Yanling Chen, Yiqiang Shang, Zander Navarro Edited by Antônio Márcio Buainain, Miguel Rocha de Sousa, Zander Navarro

Publication date:

08 November 2017

Length of book:

292 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498542265

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.

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

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.