The Political Economy of Agricultural Booms : Managing Soybean Production in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.

The Political Economy of Agricultural Booms; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 The International Political Economy of Agriculture; Driving Demand: The Four F's; Soybeans and the World Market; Agriculture in the Latin American Economies; Soybeans in the Southern Cone; Linkages, Commodity Chains, and the Political Economy of Agriculture; Notes; 2 A Super-Seeding Business; The Institutional Frameworks; The Political Economy of Seeds; Argentina; Paraguay; Brazil; Notes; 3 Global Trading; The New Global Agricultural Trade

World Grain Trade and the Soybean ChainFinance and Infrastructure as Political Economy; Financial Instruments; Taxes/Duties; Infrastructure; Notes; 4 Coordination: Brazil; The Amazon: Political Economy in Brazil's Far West; Land Struggles; Notes; 5 Colonization: Paraguay; The Brasiguayos: An Intermestic Driving Force; The Far West; Notes; 6 Confrontation (…and Beyond): Argentina; A State Against the Campo?; Notes; Conclusion; Annex 1. Agricultural Forward and Backward Linkages; Note; Annex 2. Geographic Distribution of Soybean Production in the Soybean Republics; References; Index