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Welcome to Soylandia : Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ofstehage, Andrew.
- Series:
- Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soybean farmers--Brazil.
- Soybean farmers.
- Agriculture--Social aspects--Brazil.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Brazil.
- Americans--Agriculture--Brazil.
- Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Welcome to Soylandia is an empirically rich ethnography of the movement of US farmers to the expanding soybean frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado. It charts their encounters with landscapes, soils, crops, people, and markets in Brazil."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Welcome to Soylandia
- Contents
- Preface: The Farmer's Problem
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: What Was a Dream Will Become a Reality
- 1. Brazil Is "the Big Answer to a Lot of Questions"
- 2. Wastelandscapes and Sacrifice Zones
- 3. Working Soylandia
- 4. Flexible Farming and the Weediness of Soylandia
- 5. Value and Community in Soylandia
- 6. The Aftermath
- Conclusion: Welcome to Soylandia
- Afterword: Fixed Farming
- Appendix: Research Methods
- Glossary of Portuguese Words
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501780226
- 1501780220
- 9781501780257
- 1501780255
- OCLC:
- 1455116412
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