Regiões do agronegócio, novas relações campo-cidade e reestruturação urbana

Abstract

Economic globalization, featured by international trade liberalization process, has improved an intensive agricultural and livestock production restructuring. These activities are characterized by the production of agricultural commodities, renewable fuels, tropical fruits and raw materials for several industrial branches, mainly for export. Another important feature arising from the globalized agribusiness is the large corporations rule over the production and trade process. Associated to the industrial and financial capital, these big agribusiness companies spearhead the new global governance networks, which rule the agricultural production. This article emerge from the issues discussed on the working group called "Agribusiness regions, new rural-urban relations, and urban restructuring", held in the XI Encontro da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Geografia (ANPEGE), in 2015. The article's main goal is to contribute to deepen the debate on the agribusiness territorial dynamics in Brazil and Argentina, highlighting the following issues: the territorial specialized production, the new rural-urban relations, the agribusiness logistics, the urban restructuring, and the social and spatial inequalities.