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This paper aims to understand the territorialization of industrial poultry farming and the changes in the work of the poultry activity and the integration program of the agribusiness Nutriza Agroindustrial de Alimentos SA/Friato Alimentos, in Pires do Rio (GO). The study shows the reorganization of space from the implementation of the aforementioned agroindustry and the integration system as a lever for this production process, incorporated into new technologies and the reorganization of work. The new configurations of productive restructuring in poultry farming in the town were discussed, as well as the producer and agribusiness relations and the possibilities of restructuring this program for the integration of poultry producers. The methodological path of the research is qualitative, consisting of the following steps: theoretical, documental, and field research. Semi-structured interviews were carried out for data collection. The illustrations used in this paper were: photos and maps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The agrarian question has been deeply distorted by the neoliberal vision, which is based on the economics of agribusiness articulated the global commodity economy. In contrast, this paper proposes a broader discussion, considering key aspects of the Brazilian agrarian problem. From a methodological point of view, this is an analysis of a qualitative nature, based on a secondary source and on specific literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Innovation in organizations is the subject of study of several scientific publications, on varied areas of knowledge. However, questions that seek to analyze the innovations existing in startups that develop new technologies for agribusiness still represent a small part of this research. Thus, we have the following research question: what types of innovation exist in startups that develop new technologies for agribusiness? Hence, the objective of this paper is to identify the types of innovation that exist in startups that develop new technologies for agribusiness. An RBS (Systematic Bibliographic Review) was carried out on the main scientific productions published from 2008 to 2018, using the RBS Roadmap, and the Start Software for data systematization. The works related to the scope defined in this research present a profile still little explored by the academic community and, although there are studies about the innovation in the organizational context, the literature shows itself insufficient in works that approach this subject in the scope of the startups that develop new technologies for agribusiness. Therefore, the theme is timely and relevant for further research, due to its contemporary character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to understand the schooling / (dis) qualification of workers in the countryside and the city, with the arrival of agro-industrial complex in the western region of Santa Catarina, from the formal education of youth and adult, dedicated to training simple and part of the workers. The region has a dependent relationship with large agricultural industries, like Brazil Foods (BRF), Aurora and diplomat Industrial e Comercial Ltda. Using this approach, workers of the countryside and the city, experience a dialectical relationship of (dis) qualifications, opposite the agroindustrial capital. The reported text using the method of dialectical materialism, in which capital and labor are not separate but united dialectically in capitalist production. The study area comprises the town of Xaxim in the west of Santa Catarina, characterized by the presence of an agribusiness of birds, as well as significant trade and services sector, aimed to serve mostly the needs of the agroindustrial capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the year 2000 we can observe the deepening of the productive territorial specialization in the cultivation of agricultural commodities aimed at the foreign market in portions of the North and Northeast Cerrados. In the face of the process of the agribusiness expansion in this region of the country the Brazilian State is articulating a set of actions aimed at strengthening the agricultural activity in MATOPIBA (a region that involves portions of the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia). This paper evaluates how the State, from a set of studies elaborated by Embrapa, produced a region that can be considered a "tool" for the planning of public policies destined to the promotion of agribusiness, in order to give greater competitiveness to the regional production. Such condition takes more precise shape through the promulgation of MATOPIBA's Agricultural Development Plan (ADP), which gives the region the status of a strategic agribusiness expansion area in the country, creating, to some extent, the viability of corporate use of the territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper covers the concept of territory bringing reflections around the idea of "Use of Territory". The reflexive debate, converge into the case of economical logic of a national company denominated Belagrícola. The company acts in the agribusiness sector, and, from reconfigurations propitiated by the technical device associated to science and the information, it was found that the company generates a "conscious use" of the territory in which it settled. Therefore, the present paper made from fieldwork with interviews and questionnaires' applications in order to discuss the Belagrícola's case, as well as the use of territory made by it at the city of Imbituva that is located on the southeast of Parana's State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper argues that the discourse of palm oil production for biodiesel constitutes a frontier ideology. Around it, the representation of space endowed with comparative advantages is reedited. To do so, it is based on data from the United States Department of Agriculture, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, the National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels, the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, and in company reports, as well as interviews with company representatives. In addition to the introduction and conclusion, in the first part examines the palm oil production, consumption and global trade, indicating that it is destined to the food, cosmetics and hygiene industry. The second shows the new frontier ideology promoted by palm oil at the beginning of the 21st century, highlighting the analytical pertinence of this category to interpret territorial dynamics of the Amazonia agrarian space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This full paper has made part of a huge one project titled "For a geography in the baiano west". Full paper which one was developed in the area in Geography's graduation in the Institute of Ambient Sciences and Sustainable Development at Federal university from Bahia (ICAD/UFBA) and had like a point to analyze one of the areas of agricultural modernization of the northeast region in Brazil, the Baiano's West, it understands while a product historically constructed in order to recognize the paper of the work and the technological conquests in the estructuration of the territory, in the regional differentiation and the particularityes of the place. It's really important to consider the changes of Baiano's West occurred of the introduction of informacional-scientific-technician way had introduced new relations on the space, with implications of social, cultural, politics and ambient order, which it needs to be investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through an initial contextualization of risk management in agribusiness, this paper aims to identify the main agricultural risk events. This action is justified by the fact that the identification is a fundamental step of the risk management process. It was found over 1997 articles through a systematic review of the literature, of which 57 are selected to provide the main agricultural risk events. As a result, they met eight categories of risk events for 86 risk events. The main sources of risk are production and market. This compilation of risk events is useful for the agricultural risk management development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to analyze the phenomenon of geographical concentration of companies with forest-based activities in Três Lagoas-MS and region, taking into account the main characteristics of the configuration of a cluster and its importance to the local and regional economic development. The research was conducted through a single case study, integrated with multiple units of analysis, in a qualitative and exploratory approach. Were analyzed secondary data, supplementing it with technical visits and observations in the agroindustrial complex forest industries. The research results show that there are indications of the presence of a cluster in the embryonic stage, which can be nominated as the cluster of pulp and paper-based resources and cluster type of transnational corporations. The scenario is promising to open new enterprises and diversification of production forest based, drawing on the support and encouragement of public policy development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rural space is understood in its multiples aspects, whether economic or cultural. Therefore depends on the look of the researcher and the objectives previously outlined. This paper aims to review literature on rural space and point the analytic perspective as a foundation in understanding the rural and rurality. The choice of the theoretical model used for the construction of this text does not presuppose the absence of other readings of the rural space, but underlies our concern and theoretical coherence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we analyze the socio-environmental impacts of palm oil plantations on traditional communities in the Brazilian Amazon state of Pará. The arrival of palm oil as a source of biofuels in the micro-region of Tomé-Açu in northeastern Pará is a development that reorganizes the landscape, territorial organization, social dynamics, and the general geographic space and territorial use of the region. From a technical viewpoint, the economic and productive advantages of palm oil compared to other palms and oilseeds are unsurpassed. However, one must ask what socio-environmental impacts may occur in the landscape, territorial organization, social dynamics, and larger lifestyle changes that palm oil agribusiness may bring. While economically profitable, palm oil plantations have yet to demonstrate social and environmental sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increase of Brazilian cellulose production in the last years and, linked to it, the expansion of tree monocultivation are recent phenomena with serious economical, social, and specially territorial consequences. Advocates of this production, direct or indirect representatives of capital, and State agents look at it as a clear sign of the country's "vocation" for such activities, given its productivity and competitiveness, which are absolutely superior to those of any other country in the world. Besides the discourse, however, the Brazilian case should be understood as a manifestation of the process of fragmentation and geographical extension of the paper production circuit, now globalized, in which the complementary production movement includes Brazil, due to some specific natural and social conditions. In Brazil, it is concomitantly starting a process of moving cellulose production into the countryside. Such process is guided by national or foreign corporations' blind interest in reducing production expenses, and it is also performed through the establishment of mega enterprises in places distant from the dynamic center of the national economy. The present work aims at presenting and questioning some of the main aspects of these phenomena, as well as the most outstanding issues in relation to work (and to workers), and to the territories which have been affected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research's objective is to analyze how social actors utilized discursive strategies and mobilized resources in the process of adopting a diversification strategy, even though the latter has already been present in the organizational field. The theoretical basis of this research is the pre-identified ideas of the Institutional Theory, especially the topics that examine the agency and the change such as the Institutional Entrepreneurship. Also described, is the circulation process of the idea by the organizational field, highlighting the role of the conductors and referenced organizations. To understand how this process occurred, an empirical study was conducted with a qualitative approach. The strategy in use was a case study of the construction of the Aviculture Complex in Copagril Cooperative. The paper, based on the Institutional Entrepreneurship study, has analyzed the role played by social actors in two categories: resource mobilization (financial and social) and discourse usage.The analysis demonstrates that the social actors are very much active in the process of a convergent change, being fundamentally important to identify the idea, mobilize resources and build arguments to support the idea presented. The analysis also demonstrates the importance of developing connotations shared by the social actors to support the strategy adopted by the organization. The process of developing connotation was aided by organizations in the field that have already adopted this idea, which can be used as reference. The analysis also highlighted the importance of relational systems as drivers of the idea to the organization and the influence of referenced organizations in the identification process of the idea. The originality of this research is present in the analysis of the role of individuals in the process of adopting an idea already present in the organizational field, thus being different from the institutional entrepreneurship studies that examine the adoption of an innovative idea in the organizational field. Another relevant contribution is the focus on practical work performed by social actors in the process of adopting a strategy, which can create conversation bridges between those who study organizations and those working at these organizations, encouraging the understanding of institutional ideas in non-academic discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Brazil, the overwhelming expansion of the global agribusiness on new areas of the Cerrado, creates functional regions specialized in the production of agricultural commodities, such as the West of Bahia. With accelerated growth of crops like soybeans, corn and cotton in addition to livestock, on the one hand, reach high volumes of production and increase productivity levels, on the other, reproduce social inequality and poverty/land in cities and rural areas due to the destruction of nature, labor exploitation and abuse of wealth and income concentration. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyze the imbalance between economic growth and social development of the three main cities of this region: Barreiras, Luís Eduardo Magalhães and São Desidério. The extreme social inequality divides the economy of the regional space into two distinct sides: the territory of the territory of the rich and poor, the "territory of the progress" of modern large agribusiness farms and gated communities and "precarious territory" of the numerous and growing suburbs of cities. To change this reality of the abusive concentration of wealth and income, it is necessary to combat the ideological discourse and practice of macro-scale reproduction of the capital of modern agriculture, to provide universal access to collective goods and services and make decent living and working. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzed, under the Resource-Based View (RBV) perspective, the internal Information Technology (IT) resources as providers for competitive advantage. The main analysis of this historical longitudinal study investigated 17 strategic attributes through a qualitative exploratory approach. Each strategic attribute was identified, characterized and defined according to the corresponding RBV authors, before being used in the analysis. This multiple case study considered the competitive dynamics in two metal-mechanic leading and highly competitive organizations in terms of technological innovation. The study consists of interviews with 16 senior executives (12 CEOs and four CIOs) whose narrative made possible the reconstruction of twenty years of competitive history, considering relevant economic events or critical phases identified during each studied period. After the reconstruction of the competitive history, the identification of resources, and the critical economic events the senior executives were encouraged to give their opinion about the strategic potential of the identified IT resources. Understanding IT intervention was important to study the way matching to the adopted instrument the IT resources support competitiveness according to the RBV perspective. Content analysis, following Bardin's approach, was useful to the unveiling of meanings from different speeches based on inference or deduction and, simultaneously, following specific criteria to generate proper data for the theme structures. The IT resources did not contribute strategically dissociated from the other resources during the critical economic events faced by the two organizations. The two organizations recognized the strategic potential of using integrated resources for the development of new strategies and the maintenance of the existing ones. Among the results, the study revealed the different IT strategic attributes and their interaction with the critical events at the studied organizations. The strategic attributes were associated to some of the identified resources, such as Product Configurator (PC), Commercial Module (CM) and Virtual Manufacture (VM). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work is the result of a survey into the relationship between rural settlements infrastructure and economic development in São Paulo (Brazil) and it makes comparisons between Araraquara and Pontal do Paranapanema areas. This paper proposes a study of group dynamics with the social relations model seeking to understand the socio-political contexts in which the settlements are integrated. We discussed the particular circumstances that have caused social tensions, emphasizing the settled families, social movements, technicians and public managers, the presence of agro-industrial complexes, and other regional economic agents. An examination of different types of partnerships with the agro-industrial complexes - for production of commodities - was performed and, as indicative of new perspectives, other forms of improvement and the integration of settlements in urban areas through public policies for food security. Accordingly, we seek to give the study an interdisciplinary character, integrating dimensions of social, environmental and economic analysis on these processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the added value in the Brazilian rural agro-industries. The information is derived from tabulations based on Agricultural Census microdata, which allowed us to construct a sectorial and macro-regional comparison. Among the wide set of manufacturing and processing activities measured by the census, we selected nine processed products in the rural establishments (aguardente, jams and jellies, cassava flour, corn meal, bread, cheese and cream cheese, rapadura, sausage and tapioca). The discussion focuses on the interaction between the quantitative results from variables such as production value, trade value and value-added, and the particularities of the different economical, political and institutional contexts found both in the macro-regions and value chains. Despite the different sectorial and territorial dynamics, the results support the importance of the rural agroindustry as strategic activity for adding value and rural development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze what extent the location inluences the internationalization process of Brazilian companies. From ive models of internationalization, that key concept is cross compared to explain the empirical analysis of the cases. The research is characterized by its longitudinal approach and methodological procedures based on the adaptive theory. Data analysis was performed in two stages: descriptive and the method of constant comparison, both using ATLAS/ti software. Based on the concept properties, four signiicant events emerged, with distinct dominance over time: trends, and comparative locational advantages (transactional and comparative) and disadvantages. The results show that the comparative advantages were decisive for the start of the internationalization and boosted the trends in the region. Transactional beneits are present in later stages, acquired through the opening of subsidiaries abroad. Locational disadvantages were also perceived throughout the whole process due to unforeseen chance events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the application of the Statistical Information System classifications in force in Brazil in the agro-industrial production chain, thus filling a gap in the literature of agricultural sciences. Due to its prominence in the sector, in terms of production / marketing / exports, it was selected the productive chain of the oil-juice-citrus Brazilian industry. The goal is to identify each classification position in the chain and downstream and upstream demands for each activity and product. Considering the statistical system, it was analyzed the National Classification of Economic Activities (CNAE) and the Mercosul Common Nomenclature (NCM). It was consulted the statistical information of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and the United Nations (UN), besides the specific scientific literature. In general, these classifications of economic activities and products are not mutually exclusionary but can overlap each other with relative ease and minimal intervention. Despite the many existing segmentation, both the supply chain and the classifications from this work are set correctly. The productive chain of the oil-juice-citrus Brazilian industry involves these activities: cultivation, production, harvesting, processing of juices and related, industrial utilization of by-products and waste / scrap, packing houses, distribution, marketing and consumption. The products are: agricultural inputs, orange (fruit), juices, essential oils, aromatic waters, terpenes, terpenoids, limonene, fragrance and cosmetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In face the increasingly valuation of the traditional agro-foods products and the more and more social and economic vulnerability in the Latin-American rural localities, there is one trend to vertical integration of the production through agro-industrialization in the family farm. The central objective of this paper is to point and to analyze the importance of the family agroindustries in the dynamic of development of Brazilian rural areas, specially the agro-industries trajectories in the South of country. This study it is based in common indicators to show the importance of small agro-industries for the process of improvement of family farms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The attempt of the Brazilian agribusiness dominant class to link the political actions of the MST with the terrorist actions of contemporary such groups, trough the media of the great press, is the object of analysis of this paper. This maneuver can be evidenced by the analysis of two objetcts - an article published in a major press magazine and a referral of a bill in Congress - and the existent connections between them. In desconstructing this association it is intended to expose the counterpoint of accusatory argument of the violent character of the MST, by exposing the data that indicates that the violent áreas are those related to the agribusiness expansion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]