Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University, UK.

"Ioris’ theoretically and empirically informed analysis of neoliberal agrifood in Brazil highlights the power, folly, and injustice of contemporary capitalism. The book presents the socioecological implications - both local and global - of bringing central Amazonia into the core of the global economy with disturbing clarity and urgency, leaving chunks stuck in your throat." – Steven Wolf, Professor of Environmental Social Science, Cornell University, USA"Back from a reporting trip in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is expanding at a savage pace, I was delighted to discover this book. Ioris is one of the few voices to be analysing from a radical perspective the horrendous social and environmental costs of the commodification of our food." – Sue Branford, former Latin America analyst at the BBC World Service, UK"This is a book of immense importance to anyone seeking to understand the influence, the rationale and the limitations of agribusiness in the word today. It is a powerful and insightful text that should be read by anyone interested in the neoliberal turn of the agri-food systems and the related agrarian, environmental and socio-ecological problems which particularly characterise the new agricultural frontiers of Brazil." – Bernardo M. Fernandes, chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Territorial Development and Education for the Countryside and geography professor at São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil

• PrefaceThe Political Ecology of Agri-Food Systems Realising Agro-neoliberalism in Brazil Push and Hold the Agribusiness Frontier The Rent of Agribusiness Displacement, Replacement and Misplacement Poverty in Rich Amazonian Ecosystems Conclusions: Fields of Empty Grains