The five faces of agrobusiness

• Autor(a) principal: Pompeia, Caio
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Ribeiro Neto, Caio Pompeia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de antropologia (São Paulo. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/ra/article/view/202839
• topic: Agronegócio; heterogeneidade; mudanças climáticas; povos indígenas; meio ambiente.

With growing global pressures on the serious socio-environmental problems in agricultural commodity chains in Brazil, there is greater stimulus for the differentiation among national and transnational agri-food elites operating in the country. Through a gradient, this article analyzes five strands of socio-environmental positions of these dominant agents. By associating each strand with a specific agribusiness actor, the research also examines the extent to which positions are unfolded into effective political actions. The empirical material comes from corporate documents, long-term participant observation in business forums and interviews with leaders of agribusiness associations. The results demonstrate the widening of programmatic divergences between elites of the food systems, but also evidence considerable contradictions in this process.