The project seeks to reflect on the process of land commodification in the areas of the advancing food frontier in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reviewing records, legislation, documents, arrangements, writings. Consolidated and disputed agrarian historiographies when thinking about the role of agriculture in Chile, Brazil and Argentina before the Great Depression of 1929. Coffee in Western São Paulo. Wheat from Buenos Aires and Araucanía. The credits granted to future crops also unite promises of access to land, transforming into different experiences of leasing per plot, in the cases of Buenos Aires and São Paulo. Two moments help to map this process of land commodification at the beginning of the century: 1889, when, after the proclamation of the Brazilian republic, slave labor is replaced by wage labor, competing more openly for immigrant arms with other American nations; and 1914, when the outbreak of World War I coincides with the peak of Argentine GDP growth, the highest in Latin America, making more explicit the importance of internal markets capable of maintaining, with the exception of the Brazilian reality, regional dynamism such as that experienced by Chile.
