Facing a phenomenon that has been occurring at a global level for decades and which consists in the process of land grabbing and land concentration, a “strong” answer could be recognized in the need of a returning to the land which coincides in the family farming model. A reality that is able both to recover and adopt innovative trends (precision farming, e-commerce, food traceability, etc.), and to turn away the agriculture from the agrobusiness model, disconnected from the specificity of environmental and territorial resources. An example of this ambivalent situation is Brazil: on one hand, the country does not seem to hinder investments in large land concentrations, the result of speculation by foreign or joint (foreign and Brazilian) or national companies, on the other hand, public rural development policies encourage programs to support and consolidate family farming. Based on these assumptions the paper proposes to analyze both production models that characterize the Brazilian agriculture sector, with a particular attention paid to the most important agrobusiness segment, the eucalyptus monoculture, aimed at the production of coal, cellulose and semi-finished products for the building industry.
A fronte di un fenomeno che da più di qualche decennio si sta manifestando a livello globale e che consiste nel processo di accaparramento di terre e concentrazione fondiaria (land grabbing e land concentration), una risposta ef cace per contrapporsi a tali dinamiche distruttive può essere ravvisata in quel bisogno di ritorno alla terra da più parti auspicato che guarda in particolare a un modello di agricoltura familiare. Una realtà che è capace sia di recuperare e adottare ten- denze innovative (precision farming, e-commerce, tracciabilità alimentare, etc.), sia di determinare l’allontanamento dell’agricoltura dal modello dell’agrobusiness, disconnesso dalla speci cità delle risorse ambientali e territoriali. Un caso esempli cativo di questa situazione ambivalente è rappresentato dal Brasile: se, da un lato, il Paese sembra non impedire gli investimenti nelle grandi concentrazioni fondiarie, frutto di speculazioni da parte di imprese straniere o compartecipate (straniere e brasiliane) o nazionali, dall’altro lato, le politiche pubbliche di sviluppo rurale incentivano programmi per il sostegno e il consolidamento dell’agricoltura familiare. Questi i presupposti per analizzare entrambi i modelli produttivi che caratterizzano il settore dell’agricoltura brasiliana, con un’attenzione particolare rivolta al più importante segmento dell’agrobusiness, la monocoltura di eucalipto, finalizzata alla produzione di carbone, cellulosa e semilavorati per l’edilizia.
Agrobusiness e agricoltura familiare: il caso del Brasile
LUISA SPAGNOLI
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2020
Abstract
Facing a phenomenon that has been occurring at a global level for decades and which consists in the process of land grabbing and land concentration, a “strong” answer could be recognized in the need of a returning to the land which coincides in the family farming model. A reality that is able both to recover and adopt innovative trends (precision farming, e-commerce, food traceability, etc.), and to turn away the agriculture from the agrobusiness model, disconnected from the specificity of environmental and territorial resources. An example of this ambivalent situation is Brazil: on one hand, the country does not seem to hinder investments in large land concentrations, the result of speculation by foreign or joint (foreign and Brazilian) or national companies, on the other hand, public rural development policies encourage programs to support and consolidate family farming. Based on these assumptions the paper proposes to analyze both production models that characterize the Brazilian agriculture sector, with a particular attention paid to the most important agrobusiness segment, the eucalyptus monoculture, aimed at the production of coal, cellulose and semi-finished products for the building industry.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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