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ELKISCH MARTINEZ, Mariana. Agricultural production and dispossession of nature in the current phase of capitalist accumulation. Inter disciplina [online]. 2018, vol.6, n.14, pp.177-204.  Epub 15-Feb-2021. ISSN 2448-5705.  https://doi.org/10.22201/ceiich.24485705e.2018.14.63386.

The article analyzes the changes registered in the worlds’ agri-food sector after the neoliberal inflection. Based on the dumping prices dynamic and later on financial speculation, specifically the boom in commodities futures markets as well as the large-scale production of agrofuels, we analyze the main characteristics and consequences of these adjustments, especially their impact in Latin America and the Caribbean, such as the control of the multinational agribusiness, the disintegration of peasant units, the rural-urban migration, the productive reconversion, the loss (relative or absolute) of food sovereignty and the deepening of general poverty.

At the same time, from the examination of the differential income of the land and the generation of a financial income derived from the transformation of food into commodities, a process of (capitalist) revaluation of the agrocultivable land from which an intense global cycle of hoarding derives. This process of despoiling and consequent exacerbation of the dispute for the land is analyzed within the framework of the renewed relationship between capital and biological-natural resources, which is marked by the scope of the third technological revolution and the degree of scarcity registered by non-renewable natural resources, and from which a deep process of spatial reconfiguration of capitalism is taking place, particularly committed to the control of the rural territories of the planet.

Palabras llave : land; natural resources; biofuels; financial speculation; dispossession.

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