Afonso Henrique de Menezes Fernandes, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Spanish with Juanita Cuéllar Benavides in Revista Campo-Território.
Abstract: During the first decades of the 21st century, there has been a growing interest in land investments for agricultural production, extractivist activities or speculative purposes, leading to global land grabbing processes. In Colombia, since the 2000s, the Altillanura region has been identified as the area with the greatest potential for agro-industrial expansion, which has led various actors to call it the ‘Colombian Cerrado’ in allusion to the main region of expansion of Brazilian agribusiness and the role that Brazil can play in terms of technical cooperation and investment to boost the region’s productive potential. This article explores the expansion of the Brazilian Cerrado agribusiness model towards the Altillanura, analysing the way in which Brazil presents itself as a technical-productive, political and symbolic reference point for the development of transformations in this region, and how some large Brazilian companies have bet on this territory as a frontline for the expansion of their business. The article concludes that, despite the strength of the discourse on the technical, productive and symbolic referent of the Brazilian model, the effective presence of Brazilian companies in the Altillanura still seems to be modest and presents important limitations.
Read the full article in Spanish here: https://doi.org/10.14393/RCT195774805
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