Regional productive specialization and the current organization of agriculture in Brazil

Abstract

The current expansion of the agricultural frontier in Brazil has meant a technical and informational consolidation of the territory under a new regulation policy driven mainly by bigcompanies involved in agribusiness. Then agriculture becomes increasingly driven by logics familiar only to other sectors of the economy and the imperative of competitiveness takes over the entire production cycle. We try to understand the changes in the forms of providing credit and financing for agriculture and the consequent changes in the forms of organization and agricultural use of the Brazilian territory, as well as productive regional specialization shaped from then. The configuration of these functional regions could undermine the country that nowdependsonoutsider’spolicies and interests and is madeby anexogenous logic, thus alienating.