Critical Development Studies Series Series Editors Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction 1 The Concept of Agribusiness The Industrialization of Agriculture in the United States and the Expansion of World Trade The International Standardization of Food Economic and Geopolitical Contradictions in the Expansion of Agribusiness The Internationalization of Agribusiness Exporting the Agribusiness System to Latin America The Concept of Agribusiness in Brazil The Influence of "Evolutionary Economics" on the Concept of Agribusiness Notes 2 Land as a Mechanism of Financial Accumulation The Peasant Economy The Industrialization of Agriculture The Industrialization of Agriculture in Brazil 3 Socioeconomic Impacts of Financial Speculation and Land-Grabbing International Financial Corporations and Land Speculation in Brazil Land-Grabbing in the Cerrado Financial Capital and Land Markets 4 The Myth of Agrofuels Ethanol Production and Financial Speculation on Farmland Access to International Markets and the Role of the State in Promoting Agrofuels Social and Environmental Impacts of Ethanol Production Labour Exploitation on Sugarcane Plantations Rural Women and Grassroots Feminism Looking at the Past to Change the Future Conclusion References Index.