Globalization and Agriculture

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.

• Chapter 1: Globalization and Agriculture: Some Observations and Some Questions, by Henry BernsteinChapter 2: The Global Driving of Brazilian Agrarian Development in the New Century, Zander Navarro and Antônio Márcio BuainainChapter 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 VieiraChapter 4: Globalization, Family Farming and Foreign Trade in Peru: A Preliminary Exploration, by Hector MalettaChapter 5: The Mexican Agricultural Sector Two Decades after NAFTA: Expectations, Facts, and Policy Challenges, by Antonio Yunez-Naude and Alan Hernandez-SolanoChapter 6: The History and Development of The Modernization of Chilean Agriculture Since the 1960s: From Insulation to Globalization, by Alberto ValdesChapter 7: Changing Relations of Production of Agriculture in China under Globalization, by Cheng LiChapter 8: China’s Food Security Challenges and Its Foreign Trade and Investment Landscape in Agriculture, by Guo JieChapter 9: Modernization of Chinese Agriculture: Economic, Social and Environmental, by Peifen Zhuang, Weiwei Fu, Junlin He, and Rana Muhammad Sohail JafarChapter 10: Impacts Parched Souls and Desiccated Lives: What Is Pushing Indian Farmers to Suicide? by Roopinder OberoiChapter 11: Mozambique’s Embattled Savannah: Brazilian Cooperation and Global Agrarian Disputes, by Lídia CabralChapter 12: Globalization, Agribusiness, and the Liberalization of Agricultural Services in Ghana, by Kojo AmanorChapter 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.