El "conflicto del campo" de 2008 en Argentina : Hegemonía, acumulación y territorio

El artículo se propone como objetivo abordar el conflicto agrario de 2008 en la Argentina a partir de la interrelación de tres ejes: hegemonía, acumulación y territorio. Para esto, analizamos las dinámicas del circuito productivo sojero y su relación con el modelo de acumulación, e ingresamos luego en el estudio de los componentes específicamente políticos e ideológicos del conflicto, que fueron constituyendo una genuina lucha por la hegemonía. Asimismo, indagamos factores de carácter territorial que atravesaron de modo significativo dicho proceso

El "conflicto del campo" de 2008 en Argentina : Hegemonía, acumulación y territorio

El artículo se propone como objetivo abordar el conflicto agrario de 2008 en la Argentina a partir de la interrelación de tres ejes: hegemonía, acumulación y territorio. Para esto, analizamos las dinámicas del circuito productivo sojero y su relación con el modelo de acumulación, e ingresamos luego en el estudio de los componentes específicamente políticos e ideológicos del conflicto, que fueron constituyendo una genuina lucha por la hegemonía. Asimismo, indagamos factores de carácter territorial que atravesaron de modo significativo dicho proceso

El "conflicto del campo" de 2008 en Argentina : Hegemonía, acumulación y territorio

El artículo se propone como objetivo abordar el conflicto agrario de 2008 en la Argentina a partir de la interrelación de tres ejes: hegemonía, acumulación y territorio. Para esto, analizamos las dinámicas del circuito productivo sojero y su relación con el modelo de acumulación, e ingresamos luego en el estudio de los componentes específicamente políticos e ideológicos del conflicto, que fueron constituyendo una genuina lucha por la hegemonía. Asimismo, indagamos factores de carácter territorial que atravesaron de modo significativo dicho proceso

El "conflicto del campo" de 2008 en Argentina : Hegemonía, acumulación y territorio

El artículo se propone como objetivo abordar el conflicto agrario de 2008 en la Argentina a partir de la interrelación de tres ejes: hegemonía, acumulación y territorio. Para esto, analizamos las dinámicas del circuito productivo sojero y su relación con el modelo de acumulación, e ingresamos luego en el estudio de los componentes específicamente políticos e ideológicos del conflicto, que fueron constituyendo una genuina lucha por la hegemonía. Asimismo, indagamos factores de carácter territorial que atravesaron de modo significativo dicho proceso

Soy & corn production on small farms /

"Addendum to the Project Paper, 'Corn and soy production on small farms' ... prepared in response to STATE 160059, 'DAEC review soy and corn grant pp'."

Análisis de la incidencia de la producción de biocombustibles a través de cultivos transgénicos en la seguridad alimentaria. Estudio de caso: Cultivos de soja transgénica en Argentina

La búsqueda de los Estados por mitigar su dependencia energética de las fuentes fósiles, ha traído consigo la búsqueda de energías alternativas, desencadenando en el uso y producción de biocombustibles. A su vez, la producción de estos últimos a través de cultivos transgénicos ha ido cobrando importancia en el escenario internacional. Esta opción se ha considerado como una salida al dilema de utilización de tierras "Biocombustible vs. Alimentos". En este contexto, el caso de Argentina, como uno de los mayores productores de cultivos transgénicos del mundo, entre los cuales se destaca la soja, se analiza en esta investigación por ser importante para determinar cuál es el impacto de los biocombustibles producidos a través de cultivos transgénicos en la seguridad alimentaria de la población.

O Circuito espacial de produção do biodiesel: configuração no território brasileiro e uso do território Norte-Rio-Grandense

This research aims to understand the use of the territory from the Rio Grande do Norte to the circuit spatial of production from the Biodiesel understanding it as part of the national context. The introduction of biodiesel into the Brazilian energy matrix begins to take shape in the year 2005 with the implementation of the National Program for Production and Use of Biodiesel (NPPB). This is anchored on three pillars: social inclusion (through family agriculture), environmental sustainability and economic viability. The NPPB consists of a set of standards, which turned into shares and distributed by almost all the national territory. Our reflection assumes that the places accommodating different forms of productive activities and, thus, the performance of the circuit space of biodiesel production depends on several factors, including the configuration of the territory they receive this new nexus economic. Understanding that the places by their technical content determine the realization of productive activities, it was found that the inclusion of this circuit space production in Rio Grande do Norte, reveals the reality expressed in the national territory, where some places are endowed with a privileged technical content and other extremely poor infrastructure. As our research could confirm the circuit space of biodiesel production that is expressed in the way plants are distributed within the country (mostly in South-Central), in more significant participation of small farmers in the South in the supply of raw material for the production of biodiesel and the main raw material used for the production of agrofuels (soybeans, whose production sector is highly consolidated and technified). Already the project materialization of NPPB regarding the settlements and communities of the Rio Grande do Norte State, we observed that the "event" or advent of realization encountered a technical means lacking in infrastructure that need to be molded to the needs of production, or is to cultivate castor beans or sunflower would be needed inputs and implements that farmers don´t have. Given the above, the research concludes that, as proposed previously, the use of the territory of Rio Grande do Norte to this circuit has summarized the performance of experiments, either with regard to the participation of family farmers as suppliers of raw materials, including the development of related research in the stage of production fuel oil by Petrobras. This finding came from research done from the concept of "spatial circuits of production," which allowed the verification of the circuit that steps outlined in Potiguar territory. Regarding the inclusion of family farmers in the productive circuit in RN, research reveals that, in the manner as has been done, it is doomed to failure. Furthermore, we dare say that this persistence in trying to put these family farmers, the way is being made, and the resulting successive failures, indicating that social inclusion advocated by NPPB not take place, and that this production circuit relies on the same logic circuit concentrated and exclusive space for ethanol production

A constituição do círculo de cooperação de pesquisa agrícola no Brasil: nova face do uso corporativo do território brasileiro no período técnico-científico-informacional

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

Mudanças da estrutura fundiária de Mato Grosso (1992-2007)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

O circuito espacial produtivo dos fertilizantes no território brasileiro

This paper has two main objective the study of the productive space circuit of fertilizers in Brazil. For this, we study the company's operations Vale Fertilizers SA More specifically, the production and consumption of fertilizers in Brazil. In the current globalization the Brazilian countryside know new ways of doing (SANTOS, 1994). This, with less roughness, adopts the Green Revolution package, and introduces inputs to the soil, such as seeders, combines, tractors, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers (Santos & Silveira, 2001). The examination of the Brazilian case as the agricultural modernization reveals the great vulnerability of modern agricultural regions in the face of globalizing modernization (Santos, 2000: 92). The places that receive capital reproduction of imperatives gain a new medium, is the formation of informational scientific technical means, are the bright spots corresponding to other places (Santos, 1994). Thus, the productive circuits are no longer confined to the environment, but establish connections with distant places (Santos, 1986; Frederick & CASTILLO, 2004). What's more, the policy is now made in the market (Santos, 2000, p.67) and the adoption by the Brazilian government's neoliberal policies, the Brazilian state-owned companies related to fertilizer production circuit are privatized, thereby Brazil makes It is further more dependent on inputs used in the field, including fertilizers

AGROFORESTRY ADDRESSING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN PARAGUAY

Paraguay is characterized in part by an economy reliant on a massive soy industry and as facing social and economic challenges resulting from highly inequitable distribution of wealth and land ownership, particularly for smallholder farmers in the rural areas of the country. Yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis), a native tree of which the leaves are used in tea, has become an increasingly common crop grown among common among smallholder farmers (owners of 10 hectares or less) as a viable alternative to soy production on a small scale. In the rural agricultural community of Libertad del Sur, located in the heart of the severely deforested Bosque Atlántico del Alto-Paraná, a series of development initiatives including tree nurseries and agroforestry projects with yerba mate were implemented with involvement of several governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Research was conducted to identify effectiveness of an agroforestry strategy to promote reforestation activities and sustainable agriculture to achieve economic and subsistence goals of the rural population. Despite a severe drought impacting initial research goals, important lessons are considered regarding promotion of development work within the community as well as community perceptions towards development agencies. Pursuit of compromise between community member and agency goals using sustainable agricultural practices is identified as an effective means to promote mutually beneficial development strategies.

Globalização e dinâmicas territoriais em Rondônia. Região Amazônica

Este trabajo analiza las dinámicas territoriales en Rondonia desde el avance espacial de la producción de soja. Tales procesos geográficos son articulados a partir de la expansión de una economía globalizada que tiene impacto directo sobre la región amazónica. La expansión de la soja es seguida por la formación de una geografía agropecuaria que concentra los granos del sur de Rondonia, lo cual muestra un dinamismo económico acompañado por la exclusión y las posibles presiones socio-territoriales en los ambientes más conservados. Como consecuencia de las relaciones sociales, la articulación espacial está basada en la expansión de la producción de soja, llevada a cabo por los agentes hegemónicos en la configuración de una red territorial, cuyas dinámicas son producto de la expansión de los procesos de las áreas globalizadas.

Globalização e dinâmicas territoriais em Rondônia. Região Amazônica

Este trabajo analiza las dinámicas territoriales en Rondonia desde el avance espacial de la producción de soja. Tales procesos geográficos son articulados a partir de la expansión de una economía globalizada que tiene impacto directo sobre la región amazónica. La expansión de la soja es seguida por la formación de una geografía agropecuaria que concentra los granos del sur de Rondonia, lo cual muestra un dinamismo económico acompañado por la exclusión y las posibles presiones socio-territoriales en los ambientes más conservados. Como consecuencia de las relaciones sociales, la articulación espacial está basada en la expansión de la producción de soja, llevada a cabo por los agentes hegemónicos en la configuración de una red territorial, cuyas dinámicas son producto de la expansión de los procesos de las áreas globalizadas.

Globalização e dinâmicas territoriais em Rondônia. Região Amazônica

Este trabajo analiza las dinámicas territoriales en Rondonia desde el avance espacial de la producción de soja. Tales procesos geográficos son articulados a partir de la expansión de una economía globalizada que tiene impacto directo sobre la región amazónica. La expansión de la soja es seguida por la formación de una geografía agropecuaria que concentra los granos del sur de Rondonia, lo cual muestra un dinamismo económico acompañado por la exclusión y las posibles presiones socio-territoriales en los ambientes más conservados. Como consecuencia de las relaciones sociales, la articulación espacial está basada en la expansión de la producción de soja, llevada a cabo por los agentes hegemónicos en la configuración de una red territorial, cuyas dinámicas son producto de la expansión de los procesos de las áreas globalizadas.

Soy supplementation and role of equol production capability in postmenopausal women using tibolone: effects on cardiovascular risk markers

Tibolone, a synthetic steroid, is effective in the treatment of postmenopausal symptoms. Its cardiovascular safety profile has been questioned, because tibolone reduces the levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. Soy-derived isoflavones may offer health benefits, particularly as regards lipids and also other cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. The soy-isoflavone metabolite equol is thought to be the key as regards soy-related beneficial effects. We studied the effects of soy supplementation on various CVD risk factors in postmenopausal monkeys and postmenopausal women using tibolone. In addition, the impact of equol production capability was studied. A total of 18 monkeys received casein/lactalbumin (C/L) (placebo), tibolone, soy (a woman s equivalent dose of 138 mg of isoflavones), or soy with tibolone in a randomized order for 14 weeks periods, and there was a 4-week washout (C/L) in between treatments. Postmenopausal women using tibolone (N=110) were screened by means of a one-week soy challenge to find 20 women with equol production capability (4-fold elevation from baseline equol level) and 20 control women, and treated in a randomized cross-over trial with a soy powder (52 g of soy protein containing 112 mg of isoflavones) or placebo for 8 weeks. Before and after the treatments lipids and lipoproteins were assessed in both monkeys and women. In addition, blood pressure, arterial stiffness, endothelial function, sex steroids, sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), and vascular inflammation markers were assessed. A 14% increase in plasma low-density lipoprotein (LDL) + very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) cholesterol was observed in tibolone-treated monkeys vs. placebo. Soy treatment resulted in a 18% decrease in LDL+VLDL cholesterol, and concomitant supplementation with tibolone did not negate the LDL+VLDL cholesterol-lowering effect of soy. A 30% increase in HDL cholesterol was observed in monkeys fed with soy, whereas HDL cholesterol levels were reduced (48%) after tibolone. Interestingly, Soy+Tibolone diet conserved HDL cholesterol levels. Tibolone alone increased the total cholesterol (TC):HDL cholesterol ratio, whereas it was reduced by Soy or Soy+Tibolone. In postmenopausal women using tibolone, reductions in the levels of total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol were seen after soy supplementation compared with placebo, but there was no effect on HDL cholesterol, blood pressure, arterial stiffness or endothelial function. Soy supplementation decreased the levels of estrone in equol producers, and those of testosterone in the entire study population. No changes were seen in the levels of androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, or SHBG. The levels of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 increased, and platelet-selectin decreased after soy treatment, whereas C-reactive protein and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 remained unchanged. At baseline and unrelated to soy treatment, equol producers had lower systolic, diastolic and mean arterial pressures, less arterial stiffness and better endothelial function than non-producers. To conclude, soy supplementation reversed the tibolone-induced fall in HDL cholesterol in postmenopausal monkeys, but this effect was not seen in women taking tibolone. Equol production capability was associated with beneficial cardiovascular changes and thus, this characteristic may offer cardiovascular benefits, at least in women using tibolone.