Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University, UK.

• PrefaceThe Political Ecology of Agri-Food Systems Realising Agro-neoliberalism in Brazil Push and Hold the Agribusiness Frontier The Rent of Agribusiness Displacement, Replacement and Misplacement Poverty in Rich Amazonian Ecosystems Conclusions: Fields of Empty Grains

"Ioris’ theoretically and empirically informed analysis of neoliberal agrifood in Brazil highlights the power, folly, and injustice of contemporary capitalism. The book presents the socioecological implications - both local and global - of bringing central Amazonia into the core of the global economy with disturbing clarity and urgency, leaving chunks stuck in your throat." – Steven Wolf, Professor of Environmental Social Science, Cornell University, USA"Back from a reporting trip in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is expanding at a savage pace, I was delighted to discover this book. Ioris is one of the few voices to be analysing from a radical perspective the horrendous social and environmental costs of the commodification of our food." – Sue Branford, former Latin America analyst at the BBC World Service, UK"This is a book of immense importance to anyone seeking to understand the influence, the rationale and the limitations of agribusiness in the word today. It is a powerful and insightful text that should be read by anyone interested in the neoliberal turn of the agri-food systems and the related agrarian, environmental and socio-ecological problems which particularly characterise the new agricultural frontiers of Brazil." – Bernardo M. Fernandes, chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Territorial Development and Education for the Countryside and geography professor at São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil