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The role of agricultural megacompanies in the financialization of the global food regime : the cases of Grupo Los Grobo and El Tejar in Argentina and Brazil (1996-2015)

Abstract

I study the role of agricultural mega-companies of Argentinean origin in the financialization of agriculture, a process that characterizes the transition period opened at the end of the second food regime in the 1970s. The analysis focuses on the practices of these companies, which are central actors in the financialization of agriculture at a regional level since 1) they are a vehicle for national and international financial capital in agricultural production and 2) they adopt financialized behaviors that transform the organization of work and production. I call direct and reverse financialization to these two dimensions. Both have an impact on agrarian change dynamics that reflect (and at the same time help shape) the logic of financial expansion in the agricultural sector. I analyze the effects of these two facets of financialization in the processes of concentration of land and production, as well as specialization and fragmentation of work. Finally, I study the transformations in productive organization that these companies introduce and/or spread during their crossborder expansion and the implications of these dynamics of accumulation for the agrarian question of the XXIst century. This thesis shows the centrality, in these processes, of the so-called "network model" deployed by the mega-companies under study. In Argentina, this model has given flexibility to the production process and provided legitimacy to forms of accumulation that combine productive and financial logics. It has attracted national and international financial capital that facilitated the expansion of mega-companies to other Latin-American countries, and deepened the process of concentration at the top (of land and production) and fragmentation at the bottom (of labor) through mechanisms combining dispossession and productivity.

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