Globalization and Agriculture

Edited by Antônio Márcio Buainain; Miguel Rocha de Sousa and Zander Navarro - Contributions by Alan Hernandez-Solano; Alberto Valdes; Alexandre Gori Maia; Ana Portugal Melo; Antonio Marcio Buainain; Antonio Yunez-Naude; Cheng Li; Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi; Guo

Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and how the countries have dealt with the expansion of the world, as a consequence of the world market. The other angle is the social and economic consequences of globalization for agricultural and rural development. The case studies included in this book prove that the contradictory meanings referred above are indeed representative of different facets and features of globalization.

Chapter 1: Globalization and Agriculture: Some Observations and Some Questions, by Henry BernsteinChapter 2: The Global Driving of Brazilian Agrarian Development in the New Century, Zander Navarro and Antônio Márcio BuainainChapter 3: From Food Insecurity to a Global Food Power: Will Brazil Meet Its Potential and World Expectations? by Antônio Márcio Buainain, Alexandre Gori Maia, Junior Ruiz Garcia, and Pedro Abel VieiraChapter 4: Globalization, Family Farming and Foreign Trade in Peru: A Preliminary Exploration, by Hector MalettaChapter 5: The Mexican Agricultural Sector Two Decades after NAFTA: Expectations, Facts, and Policy Challenges, by Antonio Yunez-Naude and Alan Hernandez-SolanoChapter 6: The History and Development of The Modernization of Chilean Agriculture Since the 1960s: From Insulation to Globalization, by Alberto ValdesChapter 7: Changing Relations of Production of Agriculture in China under Globalization, by Cheng LiChapter 8: China's Food Security Challenges and Its Foreign Trade and Investment Landscape in Agriculture, by Guo JieChapter 9: Modernization of Chinese Agriculture: Economic, Social and Environmental, by Peifen Zhuang, Weiwei Fu, Junlin He, and Rana Muhammad Sohail JafarChapter 10: Impacts Parched Souls and Desiccated Lives: What Is Pushing Indian Farmers to Suicide? by Roopinder OberoiChapter 11: Mozambique's Embattled Savannah: Brazilian Cooperation and Global Agrarian Disputes, by Lídia CabralChapter 12: Globalization, Agribusiness, and the Liberalization of Agricultural Services in Ghana, by Kojo AmanorChapter 13: South Africa-Apartheid, Globalization, and Agriculture, by Luís Brites Pereira, Ana Portugal Melo, Vanessa Duarte, and Miguel Rocha de Sousa