Pablo Lapegna
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190215132
- eISBN:
- 9780190215170
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190215132.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
Chapter 1 introduces the dark side of the GM soybean boom in Argentina. Why did GM soybeans expand in Argentina so broadly and quickly? What are the socioenvironmental consequences of this soy rush? ...
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Chapter 1 introduces the dark side of the GM soybean boom in Argentina. Why did GM soybeans expand in Argentina so broadly and quickly? What are the socioenvironmental consequences of this soy rush? How do farmers, the government, and rural social movements think about and react to this process? The chapter first reconstructs the agrarian neoliberalization and the sweeping expansion of transgenic soybeans in Argentina in the 1990s. Then, it focuses on the negative socioenvironmental consequences of Argentina’s soy rush: deforestation of native woods, violent land evictions suffered by peasant and indigenous families, and a myriad of agrochemical exposures in rural areas and small towns. The chapter closes with the political context by discussing the relationships between the national government, popular social movements, and agribusiness associations circa 2003–2009.Less
Chapter 1 introduces the dark side of the GM soybean boom in Argentina. Why did GM soybeans expand in Argentina so broadly and quickly? What are the socioenvironmental consequences of this soy rush? How do farmers, the government, and rural social movements think about and react to this process? The chapter first reconstructs the agrarian neoliberalization and the sweeping expansion of transgenic soybeans in Argentina in the 1990s. Then, it focuses on the negative socioenvironmental consequences of Argentina’s soy rush: deforestation of native woods, violent land evictions suffered by peasant and indigenous families, and a myriad of agrochemical exposures in rural areas and small towns. The chapter closes with the political context by discussing the relationships between the national government, popular social movements, and agribusiness associations circa 2003–2009.
Colin M. Lewis
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853237235
- eISBN:
- 9781846312700
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846312700.005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter describes the literature on the history of business in Brazil from the mid–nineteenth century to 1945. It explores the connections between the railways and Argentine governments up to ...
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This chapter describes the literature on the history of business in Brazil from the mid–nineteenth century to 1945. It explores the connections between the railways and Argentine governments up to the 1930s. It reviews the regulatory role of the state in relation to company activity, and argues that a unified ‘railway lobby’ able to defend their interests with total success never existed in Argentina. It shows that urbanisation, industrialisation, the transformation of corporate structures, and the expansion in higher education were among the most obvious effect of economic growth in Brazil.Less
This chapter describes the literature on the history of business in Brazil from the mid–nineteenth century to 1945. It explores the connections between the railways and Argentine governments up to the 1930s. It reviews the regulatory role of the state in relation to company activity, and argues that a unified ‘railway lobby’ able to defend their interests with total success never existed in Argentina. It shows that urbanisation, industrialisation, the transformation of corporate structures, and the expansion in higher education were among the most obvious effect of economic growth in Brazil.
