Abstract

GUIBERT, Martine  and  BUHLER, Ève Anne. Functions of soil resources and business models of production: advances of agrarian capitalism in Argentina and Brazil. Rev. Cienc. Soc. [online]. 2016, vol.29, n.38, pp.59-80. ISSN 0797-5538.

Business stakeholders of agricultural production in Argentina and Brazil show various kinds of relationship with the soil resource. Be equity, productive tool for risk management or speculative, soil function can be defined according to the degree of optimization of the use of productive resources, the locations of the firms subsidiaries, the logic of financing the activity and its level of internationalization. Theoretical analysis and field work carried out between 2011 and 2013 lead to elements of differentiation of these variables forms of access, possession and use of soil resources. They reveal capitalism progression in productive areas still little involved in its logic, and strong competition among actors

Keywords : Argentina; Brazil; farmland; capitalism; business agriculture.

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