Mait BERTOLLO, Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP, Brazil
Ricardo CASTILLO, Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP, Brazil
The Sars-cov-2 virus pandemic has been characterized by an increase in food prices, hunger and income concentration in Brazil, while the expansion of land use for monocultures farming has occurred through agricultural frontier expansion over the Brazilian territory. Simultaneously, there is an intense dissemination of informational objects used in agricultural activities, which results in a potential increase in production yield.
As far as globalized agribusiness is concerned, sophisticated technical objects, such as machines digitally connected through the Internet of Things (IoT), allow the collection and sharing of large volumes of data processed and analyzed by algorithms. Such technologies enable not only monitoring but also controlling several stages of the production.
These technologies can only work with the connection of rural establishments to the internet and telecommunication networks, aggravating inequalities in the field with the selective dissemination of these digital technologies throughout the territory, and with the growing presence of Bigtech and Fintech in agricultural production, by replacing various intermediaries in production and marketing. Large networks of production of inputs, pesticides and equipment are also formed and intensified, which provide credit and internet connectivity, in a movement that transforms all life flows into data, in the current stage of platform capitalism (SRNICEK, 2017).
The main questions arising from this situation are: 1) does the participation of companies involved in globalized agribusiness in sharing sovereignty (HIRST; THOMPSON, 1998) increase, to the detriment of the State? 2) Is family farming, which produces food for both local and regional domestic markets, being harmed?
The current pandemic period reinforces and causes the emergence of agents and actions that impact geopolitics (BECKER, 2007) in the Brazilian territory, contributing to the current food insecurity in Brazil (GALINDO et al., 2021).
Mots clés : Internet of Things|agribusiness in Brazil|internet|sovereignty|food security
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