Soy’s King and Wheat’s Queen: State intervention and the meaning of leading monocultures in Brazilian and Russian agrarian histories
(Publicado no site antigo 4 de agosto de 2020)
Jornal/revista/editora: Sociologies in Dialogue
Ano da publicação: 2018
Resumo: Despite of very different agrarian histories, Brazil and Russia have revealed some similarities concerning their insertion in the global food markets. One of these is the fact that both countries are now leading players in two of the most important global commodity chains. Brazil is already the main soy exporter in the world, whereas Russia is now challenging the United States hegemony in wheat production and export. This uses conciliates historical comparative analysis and institutional theory in order to understand how soy and wheat have become so crucial for Brazilian and Russian economies, and, complementarily, the role of the state in this process. Results highlight how these monocultures are associated to the different strategies these countries have developed in terms a more subordinated-liberal (Brazil) or autonomous-protectionist (Russia) incorporation in the global food markets.
Palavras-chave: Commodities, Global food regime, Sociology of Agriculture, Russia, Brazil
Equipe Gepad: Paulo André Niederle (UFRGS); Sergio Schneider (UFRGS)
Outros pesquisadores: Alexander Kurakin (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration); Alexander Nikulin (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration)
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