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

Jorge Garcia-Arias, Alan Cibils, Agostina Costantino, Vitor B. Fernandes and Eduardo Fernández-Huerga
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Jorge Garcia-Arias: Departamento de Economía y Estadística, Campus de Vegazana, Universidad de León, 24072 León, Spain
Alan Cibils: Área de Economía Política, Instituto de Industria, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS), Los Polvorines, Buenos Aires B1613, Argentina
Vitor B. Fernandes: Instituto Governança de Terras (IGT), Campinas 13026-511, SP, Brazil
Eduardo Fernández-Huerga: Departamento de Economía y Estadística, Campus de Vegazana, Universidad de León, 24072 León, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 14, 1-37

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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