BRAZIL AND MOZAMBIQUE: GEOPOLITICS, MODERNIZATION OF AGRICULTURE AND HUNGER: MATTER OF THE EXPANSION OF THE WORLD AGRICULTURAL FRONTIER

Abstract

Experiences of modernizing agriculture in Brazil have served as a support for the Mozambican government to propose substantial changes in its agricultural model and in the structure of its agrarian space. As in Brazil, Mozambique becomes a disputed territory to serve the expansion of the world agricultural frontier. In the specific case of Mozambique, the discourse of eliminating hunger, boosting the economy, increasing GDP - Gross Domestic Product, are corollaries of the geopolitical endeavor of large international corporations in the USA - United States of America, Japan, China and Brazil for the purposes modernizing. The work developed by Brazilian and Mozambican researchers and students, in view of this condition, is being built based on the following questions: why does the process of creating better living conditions require violent methods that erodes the collective land ownership regime? To what extent can the “modernizing intention” be assumed and justified as true? Fieldwork, survey of sources, organization of workshops in Mozambican Machambas, organization of symposia in Brazil and Mozambique feed the research and lead to reflections on the relationship between geopolitics and modernization of agriculture in Mozambique.