Productive regional specialization and territorial vulnerability: local implications of the expansion and crisis of the sugarcane industry in Brazil

• Grant number: 17/15377-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: April 01, 2018
• End date: January 22, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Abid Castillo
• Grantee: Henrique Faria dos Santos
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências (IG). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/19082-3 - Globalized agribusiness, neoliberalism and territorial vulnerability: analysis of sugarcane industry in Brazil, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This study purposes to analyze the productive regional specialization and the territorial vulnerability associated to expansion of sugarcane industry in the Brazilian territory. This research will identify the most vulnerable places regarding to suspension of sugarcane industry activities', as well as to evaluate the main implications of this process in some municipalities of the Centro-Sul region in Brazil. In recent years, many companies in the industry sugarcane have gone bankrupt or in receivership after the international financial crisis in 2007-2008. The temporary or permanent suspension of the activities of the sugarcane industry units is resulting several economic, social and environmental problems in the specialized municipalities and very dependent of the production and/or processing of sugarcane, damaging the local populations and governments. The corporative organization and the territory use by agents of sugarcane complex increase the subordination of places to market instabilities and to decisions of companies and of federal government, as the countryside and cities become highly functional to sector in the main sugarcane productive regions. (AU)

Scientific publications

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HENRIQUE FARIA DOS SANTOS. Estratégias de financeirização do setor sucroenergético no Brasil. Revista NERA, v. 27, n. 1, 2024-04-15. (22/11815-4, 17/15377-3)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SANTOS, Henrique Faria dos. Regional productive specialization and territorial vulnerability in the globalized agribusiness: local implications of the expansion and crisis of the sugarcane industry in Brazil. 2022. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências Campinas, SP.