Universidade Federal Fluminense

Technique, nature and territorialization strategies of large agricultural producers in MATOPIBA - Brasil

The project analyzes the territorialization process of large agricultural producers in MATOPIBA (Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia) and their relationship with nature based on technology and capitalist accumulation.

Agrarian elites and the state: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico during the neoliberal decade (1988-2000) and late neoliberalism (2000-2019)

The project proposes to study comparatively the relationship between the economic elites linked to agricultural and agro-industrial activity from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and the state during the periods of neoliberal reforms (1988-2000) and the late neoliberalism of the 21st century (2000-2019).

The Commodification of the Brazilian Cerrado: Socio-environmental, cultural and political aspects of agricultural expansion

The main objective of this research is to analyze the expansion of the agricultural frontier in the Brazilian cerrado and its contribution to the process of wealth production through spoliation and the transformation of rural land into income.

Agribusiness territories for sustainability in Central America: management, nature valorization and socio-ecological changes

This doctoral project aims to analyze the contemporary forms of production of agribusiness territories through the use of the idea of sustainability in Central America, in order to understand the forms of managerial management, valorization of nature and socio-ecological changes experienced in its implementation process.