Regional competitiveness of sugarcane industry in the mesoregion of the Triângulo Mineiro/Alto Paranaíba: globalized scientific agriculture and social and envionmental implications on the municipality of Uberaba - MG

Author(s)

Henrique Faria dos Santos

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências
• Defense date: 2017-04-27

Examining board members

Ricardo Castillo; Mirlei Fachini Vicente Pereira; Fernando Campos Mesquita

• Advisor: Ricardo Castillo

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to identify and understand the geographic (natural, geo-economic and politic-normative-institutional) of regional competitiveness factors of sugarcane industry present in the mesoregion Triângulo Mineiro/Alto Paranaíba, one of the main Productive Regions of Sugarcane Agribusiness in Brazil. The study allows us to analyze the dynamics of expansion of the sugarcane industry in the region and to evaluate the main social and environmental implications of this process, proposing as an example the municipality of Uberaba in the state of Minas Gerais. In the last few years, Brazil experienced a great growth in the sugarcane industry, based on the recent changes in the agribusiness situation under the globalized scientific agriculture paradigm. Technical and political-economic events induced a new organization of the sector, based on the internationalization and oligopolization of the market and the diffusion of scientific and technological innovations, evidencing in greater corporative use of the territory and the search for new strategic areas. The bibliographical, documental-statistical and field research have allowed us to conclude that the recent expansion of the sugarcane industry in the study area is due to the existence of productive and logistic conditions that give the agents greater competitiveness, especially in the regional portion, which we call the Competitive Region Agroindustrial of the Sugarcane Industry of Uberaba-Frutal. On the other hand, the aggressive and uncompromising occupation of sugarcane agribusiness and the exacerbation of productive regional specialization have represented several social and environmental implications in Uberaba, leading to a situation of territorial vulnerability that extends more intensely in the nearby municipalities with less economic dynamism (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 15/02028-5 - Regional competitiveness of sugarcane agribusiness in the mesoregion of the Triângulo Mineiro/Alto Paranaíba: globalized scientific agriculture and social and environmental implications on the municipality of Uberaba-MG
• Grantee: Henrique Faria dos Santos
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master