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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Samuel Frederico is professor of the Geography Department of University of Sao Paulo State, Brazil. He graduated and holds a Masters degree in Geography in the University of Campinas (Brazil) and a PhD in Human Geography in the University of Sao Paulo (USP). His research interests include the territorial dynamics of modernization and expansion of agriculture in Brazil, especially soybeans and coffee and the power of regulation of large global companies. More recently, he has extended his research to the relationship between the global financialization of the economy and land grabbing in areas of agricultural frontier in Brazil. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Despite increasing productivity, hegemonic capitalist agriculture has caused environmental, social, and economic problems, driving the search for agroecological alternatives. Agroforestry systems stand out by enhancing biodiversity in food production through specific techniques and innovative environmental management. This project aims to analyze whether agroforestry systems linked to Coo…
The dynamics of agricultural frontier expansion is something present in many parts of the world, especially in countries of the Global South. One of the consequences of the continuous expansion of capitalist agriculture over areas of native vegetation and traditional communities is the change in land control. Thus, the main objective of this research is to analyze the restructuring of the…
The main objective of the research is to analyze how the process of globalization and financialization of capital introduces a new pace of expansion and new forms of territorial agricultural use. Therefore, this research seeks to analyze the forms of action and strategies of accumulation of agricultural enterprises controlled by institutional investors in the Matopiba region. In order to …
The work plan of the visit of Professor Martine Guibert aims to contribute to the development of the following research projects: Regular Research Grants FAPESP Nº 2013/09143-9, entitled "Used territory and accumulation by dispossession: land grabbing and modern agriculture production in Brazil and Argentina"; CNPq 470751/2013-4, entitled "Financial capital and territorial resources: new …
The aim of this project is analyze how the use of the Brazilian and Argentine territory for the financial capital, by land appropriation and modern agriculture production are renewed means of accumulation by dispossession, with expropriation of other means of production and social reproduction and consequently productive territorial specialization. As are the largest agricultural produce…
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The financialization of the global economy and the professionalization of football have led to the diffusion of the club-company model, particularly the multi-club network (Multi-club ownership). To understand how Brazil has positioned itself within the new international division of labor in football, this research aims to analyze the network organizational model established by "Multi-clu…
The climate emergency is an urgent social, political, and scientific challenge. In this sense, this research project aims to understand how climate change mitigation solutions alter land use in the Matopiba macro-region, focusing on Southwest Piauí and South Maranhão, and their relation to "green grabbing" practices. The study addresses emblematic cases such as the São Gonçalo do Gurgueia…
The expansion of competitiveness caused by the advance of neoliberalism and the opening of the world market at the end of the 20th century, linked to new values associated with consumption, led to the production of differentiated coffees that are distinguishable from commodity or common coffee. One of these initiatives aimed at adding greater value to the product and giving greater identi…
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This research project aims to analyze the financialization process of globalized agribusiness in Brazil and how it has been changing the forms of corporate organization and the use of the territory by firms in the activity. In the last two decades, several firms linked to the agribusiness have been adopting different financialization strategies aiming to raise financial funds, especially …
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This research project aims to analyze the dynamics of land and green grabbing in southern Piauí, emphasizing their implications for social and environmental justice. The study seeks to understand how technical systems, such as the Land Management System (SIGEF) and the Rural Environmental Registry System (SICAR), can paradoxically exacerbate inequalities in access to land and natural reso…
This research critically examines Multi-Club Networks (MCNs) as expressions of financial and institutional transformations in global football governance. The study aims to construct a typology of MCNs based on structural and strategic dimensions, using criteria such as number of clubs, control structures, capital origin, and investment strategies. The central hypothesis is that certain ty…
This research project proposes to study how the neoliberalism has driven the financialization process of the contemporary economy and, particularly, of the globalized agribusiness, based on an analysis of the case of Brazil. In recent decades, the political economy context of neoliberalism and its normative and financial deregulation/flexibilization mechanisms has favored the liberalizati…
Despite the increase in productivity and the quantity produced, hegemonic capitalist agriculture has generated a series of environmental, social and economic problems, which has encouraged the search for alternatives for sustainable transitions in the agricultural field. Agroecology emerges as a proposal for sustainable development through the association the conservation of natural resou…
In the current period of Capital overaccumulation, financial capital constantly seeks innovative ways of accumulation, especially via new assets and territories incorporation in their investment portfolio. As a consequence, beyond the traditional applications in financial instruments, as stocks, debentures and securities exchange, it is becoming more common the capital overaccumulated inv…
This research derives from the FAPESP Nº 2015/10471-6 project, which aims to analyse the strategies of use of Brazilian territory by the BrasilAgro company. It is the first Brazilian company connected to the agricultural production traded on the stock market - São Paulo and New York. The beginning of the XXI century was marked by the agricultural commodities "boom" and for the 2008 financ…
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