O agronegócio do café em Vitória da Conquista-BA: agricultura capitalista mundializada e reprodução fictícia de capital

• Autor(a) principal: Novais, Weldon Pereira Silva de
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/13156
• topic: Agronegócio do café; Agricultura capitalista mundializada; Capital fictício; Commodities; Agribusiness of coffee; Globalized capitalist agriculture; Fictitious capital; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS

This dissertation aimed to understand the mechanisms of capitalist reproduction in coffee agribusiness in Vitória da Conquista-BA. This task put us before the challenge of understanding, in the first place, the bases that allowed the consolidation of this sector to the molds of a globalized capitalist agriculture. To that end, we analyze the historical geography of capitalism in the formation of coffee agribusiness in Conquista, with a temporal cut of 1960-1990, a period marked by the advance of capital in the Brazilian countryside and the spatial expansion of coffee cultivation in the country under the project consolidation of a commodity agroexport model. This model, the result of the geographic expansion of capital from the countries of the center to the capitalist periphery, in the face of its own crisisaccumulation. Since the 1990s, coffee agribusiness has established itself as a model of globalized capitalist agriculture and has been analyzed as an interchange of the extension of neoliberal practices and the globalization of capital. In this context, the world coffee market that was previously controlled by the State of different countries, was in the hands of the tradings and roasting and grinding industries that are groups of multinationals that promoted the concentration and monopolization of the sector on a global scale. We could not fail to point out that one of the main pillars of this globalized capitalist agriculture is the production of food in the form of commodities, which has its prices regulated in the stock exchanges and futures markets. In this way, we urged the need to understand the fictitious reproduction of capital in this sector and, in this regard, we verify the determination of the speculative logic of fictitious capital in the capitalist production of space in the coffee agribusiness, imposing the rhythm of this production in future times and, with increasing capitalist competition. This dynamics has deepened the crisis-accumulation, expanding the superexploitation of labor, promoting a substantial increase in production and productivity to supply the logic of fictitious capital in appropriating the real surplus value produced by productive capital. This current scenario of coffee agribusiness in neoliberal times and under the dominance of finance highlights, among other things, the production of food in the form of commodities as a practice of this business agriculture that is concerned with meeting the needs of accumulation fictitious and therefore is not at the service of food production to meet human needs.