Agribusiness Facing Its Limits: The Re-Design of Neoliberalization Strategies in the Exporting Agriculture Sector in Chile

The core neoliberal strategy of Chilean agrarian politics has lasted now for more than 30 years. Despite minor reforms, its fundamental pillars remain in place. While members of the agribusiness sector consider this strategy to be a role-model for food production leading to explosive economic growth...

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Published in:Land (Basel) 2020-03, Vol.9 (3), p.66
Main Authors: Panez, Alexander, Roose, Ilka, Faúndez, Rodrigo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
access to land and territory
Agribusiness
Agricultural production
Agriculture
chile
Dictators
Economic development
Economic growth
Economic models
Exports
Food
Food production
Literature reviews
Modernization
Multilayers
Neoliberalism
neoliberalization
Politics
Private sector
Rationality
Regulation
Rural areas
Subsidies
Trade agreements
Water availability
Water rights
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Summary:The core neoliberal strategy of Chilean agrarian politics has lasted now for more than 30 years. Despite minor reforms, its fundamental pillars remain in place. While members of the agribusiness sector consider this strategy to be a role-model for food production leading to explosive economic growth, the last decade exposed its socio-ecological limits, such as declining water availability and increased conflicts over land. Taking critical literature on neoliberalization as a theoretical approach, we used law and literature reviews as well as qualitative interviews with actors from the public and private sectors to reveal the details of the strategies in the exporting agriculture sector in Chile. From the understanding of neoliberalization as a multi-layered process, we analyzed the data, focusing on three dimensions of agribusiness in Chile: (a) regulation, (b) spatial fix, and (c) ideological paradigms. In doing so, we uncovered how far the coping strategies chosen by the state and private sector have re-designed and strengthened the process of agriculture neoliberalization in order to push its own socio-ecological limits.
ISSN:2073-445X
2073-445X
DOI:10.3390/land9030066