Agrifood system transitions in Brazil : new food orders / Paulo André Niederle and Valdemar João Wesz Junior ; translated by Regina Vargas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niederle, Paulo André, author.

Wesz Junior, Valdemar João, author.

Contributor:

Vargas, Regina, translator.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Critical food studies

Standardized Title:

Novas ordens alimentares. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Agricultural industries--Brazil.

Agricultural industries.

Brazil.

Food industry and trade--Brazil.

Food industry and trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Paulo André Niederle is Professor of Rural and Economic Sociology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Valdemar Joô Wesz, Junior is Professor of Rural Development at the Federal University of Latin American Integration, Foz do Iguaçú, Brazil.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsement

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of contents

Figures

Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

References

1 Food orders

The sociology of agriculture and food

The trajectory of Brazilian agriculture

The analytical paradox

Integrating consumption into agrifood system

Food orders: linking practices, institutions and artifacts

Note

2 Modernization and consolidation of the industrial order

State-led industrialization

Technological innovations and productivity growth

Expansion of the agricultural frontier

Mergers, acquisitions and transnationalization of agrifood companies

Changes in consumption practices

Metamorphoses and dilemmas of the industrial order

3 The reinvention of the commercial order

The fifth century of latifundium

Neoextractivism

Where there's smoke, there's fire

Conflicts over land and territory

Precarious work and contemporary slavery

Exhaust, drain and destroy

The present makes future look like the past

Notes

References

4 Crisis and resilience of the domestic order

The reemergence of production for own consumption

Small-scale food processing in rural areas

The revival of artisanal foods

The diaspora of colonial products

"New" food qualities

Domestic order: from invisibility to appropriation

5 Ethical criticism and the construction of a civic order

The struggle of family farmers for redistribution and recognition

The construction of civic markets by agroecological movements

Participatory certification as a civic practice

Right to food, food security and public procurement

From healthy food to "real food"

New food policies

6 Aesthetic order: Immaterializing of food

Intermediaries and judgment artifacts

Feeding the body and the market

The new aesthetics of the rural world

The taste of origin

Aesthetics and cultural heritage: interfaces and conflicts

New bottles for old wines?

Beyond fetishism

7 From the agribusiness economy to the new financial order

Financialization of the agrifood system

The financialization of agrifood companies

The financialization of agricultural commodities

Land and nature as financial assets

Flex crops

The fox guarding the chicken coop

The financial order and its repercussions for the agrifood system

8 Conclusions

Index

Notes:

"A first edition of this book, entitled simply "The new food orders" (As novas ordens alimentares), was published in 2018 by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre" -- Page xii.

Translated from the Portuguese.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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