The agribusiness borough family: expression of the productive specialization in the agricultural front

Author(s)

Silvana Cristina da Silva

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências
• Defense date: 2007-08-22

Examining board members

Márcio Antonio Cataia; Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito; Samira Peduti Kahil

• Advisor: Márcio Antonio Cataia

Abstract

The present thesis aims to understand the creation process of new borough in the agricultural front of the Mato Grosso state. We begin from the hypothesis that the borough promotes the activity of the modern agricultural in that region. The commodities production, at special the soya, generates urban centers that has became borough with self political administration, giving origin to the agribusiness family of borough, one concrete expression of the political power necessity of the urbanization in the front. This is due to the fact the borough in Brazil to be a sphere of the power state, i.e., it regulates the territory by creation of laws and organizes it with its local territory political publics. In the agribusiness borough family the local political power directs the investment for the corporative use of the territory. The investments in fluidity and, even local political for the general population, guarantee the conditions for the economical rationality of soya productive spatial circuit, reinforcing the productive specialization of those places. In this ways, the borough self-presents weak in front of the hegemony agent actions of the global sale. The agribusiness borough family constitutes bright spots in the territory, revealing the obligatory imposition of the competitiveness among the places, since it was created to endow the territory with norms and technical objects oriented to productive activity of commodities. The Brazilian federation offers facilities to capitalist production of the expansion, to favour the competition in stead of the cooperation among the borough (AU)