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The New Bonfire of Vanities: Soybean cultivation and globalization in South America

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Soybean agriculture has expanded to become one of the leading export products in several countries, providing high economic benefits but with strong social and environmental impacts. Eduardo Gudynas argues that soybean agriculture represents the forefront of a great transformation in rural life as agribusiness oriented to global markets expands and takes over traditional farming. This transformation is marked by management rather than ownership of land, with control over production processes, privatization of resources, outsourcing and commodification replacing traditional farming activities. He warns that small farmers, peasants and indigenous groups are threatened with deepening marginalization and exclusion as the relentless logic of the market pushes them to relinquish control of their land. Development (2008) 51, 512–518. doi:10.1057/dev.2008.55

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  • Eduardo Gudynas, 2008. "The New Bonfire of Vanities: Soybean cultivation and globalization in South America," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 51(4), pages 512-518, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:develp:v:51:y:2008:i:4:p:512-518
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    1. Andrew L. Ofstehage, 2018. "Financialization of work, value, and social organization among transnational soy farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado," Economic Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 5(2), pages 274-285, June.
    2. Diaby-Pentzlin, Friederike, 2020. "Deficiencies of international investment law: What chances for "critical lawyers" to civilize global value chains and/or to transform the status quo of the economic world order?," Wismar Discussion Papers 04/2020, Hochschule Wismar, Wismar Business School.
    3. Sujin Choi & Hanho Kim, 2016. "The impact of conglomerate farming on the poor: Empirical evidence from the Brazil soy sector," International Area Studies Review, Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, vol. 19(2), pages 147-164, June.
    4. García-López, Gustavo A. & Arizpe, Nancy, 2010. "Participatory processes in the soy conflicts in Paraguay and Argentina," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(2), pages 196-206, December.
    5. Lisa L. Rausch & Holly K. Gibbs, 2016. "Property Arrangements and Soy Governance in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso: Implications for Deforestation-Free Production," Land, MDPI, vol. 5(2), pages 1-16, March.

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