Financial capital and land grabbing: the use of information techniques to capture the ground rent

Author(s)

Yuri Martenauer Saweljew

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Rio Claro. 2020-01-14.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas. Rio Claro
• Defense date: 2019-11-05
• Advisor: Samuel Frederico

Abstract

In the moments of strong financial expansion of the historical geography of capitalism, as in the current period of globalization, the financial logic, by becoming autonomous in relation to societies and the real economy, imposes its norms of profitability on companies and territory. Thus, to understand the relationship between the current phenomenon of financialization of the economy and the agricultural use of the Brazilian territory, we analyze how information techniques allow the capture of land income from the activities of the company SLC Agrícola. Therefore, from the field work carried out in Piauí, Maranhão and Bahia, in which we conducted semi-structured interviews with peasants, state representatives and visits to farms of agricultural companies, and a literature review on the subject, as well as From the survey and analysis of secondary data, this dissertation sought to answer some questions: How did the IPO of agricultural companies, in particular, of SLC Agrícola result in new uses of the territory by the company? How does a publicly traded agricultural company seek to make land a financial asset? How are information techniques used to capture land income? How does SLC Agrícola generate shareholder value by pricing its land portfolio? What are the territorial impacts of the current land grabbing phenomenon? Through these questions, it was revealed that the articulation of agricultural companies with financial capital, combined with the use of information techniques, imposes a new rate of agricultural production and, consequently, a new rate of expansion in the territory, capable of promoting consequences. such as the expropriation of traditional communities and various environmental problems (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 17/00346-5 - Financial capital and land grabbing: the use of information techniques by SLC Agrícola for the capture of land income
• Grantee: Yuri Martenauer Saweljew
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master