“Nem revolução, nem verde”: agronegócio e insegurança alimentar na América Latina

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze food insecurity in Latin America due to agribusiness, from the Brazilian experience. Considering that concentration of income and land, originated from the current production model, plays a major part in the food insecurity of people in social vulnerability in this region, it will be analyzed the contexts and motivations that enabled its implementation through the Green Revolution. The dependency inherited from colonial times in Latin America is reflected in its present position in the International Division of Labour, which conceives it as a sheer exporter of agricultural commodities and an importer of manufactures products, including industrialized food. Globalization allowed for international commerce to subvert the free market in favor of food oligopolies, which control the major part of what we eat today, configuring a threat to food sovereignty of more vulnerable countries. To this end, we use statistic data withdraw from reports and an extensive literature with criticism and suggestions presented by researchers from the area, oriented by observations through latin-americanists’ perspectives. Furthermore, it seeks to defend that the overcoming of this system snaps off, essentially, from an agrarian reform that ensures more inducements for family agriculture, a model of production demonstrably more sustainable and productive.