Changes and reconfigurations in the Brazilian sugarcane agro-industrial complex from the 1990s onward: a look back

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36920/esa31-1_05

Keywords:

sugarcane energy agroindustry, ethanol, state and corporate power

Abstract

This article describes the most relevant processes of institutional, organizational, and political change experienced by the sugarcane agro-industrial complex in Brazil, particularly by the groups with greater economic power, concentrated in the state of São Paulo from the 1990s to 2014. These groups shifted from a bureaucratic and state-focused sectoral organization model to a format that was more open, flexible, and diversified in terms of participating actors, but in which the presence and participation of the Brazilian government remained an essential part of the relationship between state power and large-scale sugarcane agriculture.

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Author Biography

  • Gerardo Enrique Cerdas Vega, Universidad Nacional Costa Rica (UNA) – Heredia, Costa Rica

    Professor and researcher at the School of Agricultural Sciences at the National University of Costa Rica (UNA). PhD in Social Sciences by the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (CPDA/UFRRJ).
    [email protected]
    https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3912-4193
    http://lattes.cnpq.br/7483445730310063

Published

2023-05-31

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