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Article

When Land Meets Finance in Latin America: Some Intersections between Financialization and Land Grabbing in Argentina and Brazil

by
Jorge Garcia-Arias
1,2,*,
Alan Cibils
3,
Agostina Costantino
4,5,
Vitor B. Fernandes
6 and
Eduardo Fernández-Huerga
1
1
Departamento de Economía y Estadística, Campus de Vegazana, Universidad de León, 24072 León, Spain
2
Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, 10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK
3
Área de Economía Política, Instituto de Industria, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS), Los Polvorines, Buenos Aires B1613, Argentina
4
Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur, Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Avenida Colón 80, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires B8000, Argentina
5
Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur–Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Buenos Aires B8000, Argentina
6
Instituto Governança de Terras (IGT), Campinas 13026-511, SP, Brazil
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 8084; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13148084
Submission received: 14 May 2021 / Revised: 12 July 2021 / Accepted: 15 July 2021 / Published: 20 July 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Sustainability of Contemporary Land Use Change)
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Abstract

Financialization is one of the most relevant processes embedded in the functioning and evolution of the contemporary capitalist model and presents differential characteristics in the peripheral economies of the world-system. In turn, land grabbing is also one of the most relevant phenomena taking place in the field of farmland and land use, with particular significance also within the Global South. After presenting an in-depth analysis of both phenomena for Latin America, we specifically study the case of the two Latin American countries (Argentina and Brazil) where land grabbing has a greater qualitative and quantitative importance. In our article, we analyze the main interrelationships between both processes and show how financialization has played a fundamental role (together with the policies designed and the de-regulations implemented by respective states, and the participation of other domestic actors) in the land grabbing process in both countries.
Keywords: agribusiness; (authoritarian) neoliberalism; center/periphery; dispossession; farmland; foreignization; neocoloniality; neo-developmentalism; financial subalternization agribusiness; (authoritarian) neoliberalism; center/periphery; dispossession; farmland; foreignization; neocoloniality; neo-developmentalism; financial subalternization

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Garcia-Arias, J.; Cibils, A.; Costantino, A.; Fernandes, V.B.; Fernández-Huerga, E. When Land Meets Finance in Latin America: Some Intersections between Financialization and Land Grabbing in Argentina and Brazil. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8084. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13148084

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Garcia-Arias J, Cibils A, Costantino A, Fernandes VB, Fernández-Huerga E. When Land Meets Finance in Latin America: Some Intersections between Financialization and Land Grabbing in Argentina and Brazil. Sustainability. 2021; 13(14):8084. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13148084

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Garcia-Arias, Jorge, Alan Cibils, Agostina Costantino, Vitor B. Fernandes, and Eduardo Fernández-Huerga. 2021. "When Land Meets Finance in Latin America: Some Intersections between Financialization and Land Grabbing in Argentina and Brazil" Sustainability 13, no. 14: 8084. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13148084

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Garcia-Arias, J., Cibils, A., Costantino, A., Fernandes, V. B., & Fernández-Huerga, E. (2021). When Land Meets Finance in Latin America: Some Intersections between Financialization and Land Grabbing in Argentina and Brazil. Sustainability, 13(14), 8084. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13148084

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