Agribusiness and family farming: Economic interests and domestic supply under debate

Abstract

As a result of our master's studies and supervision, this article addresses the implications of ultra-neoliberalism on family farming and agribusiness. Through Dialectical Historical Materialism, bibliographic research and documentary analysis, we apprehend the determinations of inequalities between these agrarian sectors. The results show that the expropriation of land from rural workers is recurrent throughout the Brazilian social formation and, through a bourgeoisie and a State committed to the foreign market, this violence forges the personification of agribusiness, while subordinating family farming. Contrary to these offensives, family farming overcomes its precarious objective conditions; reduces pesticide handling; It often offers better working conditions in the fields and supplies food to the Brazilian population. The intrinsic relationship between the agrarian question and the social question and the scarcity of this debate in the area of Social Work show the importance of the study presented here.