Lobby do agronegócio: multinacionais estadunidenses e a agenda do legislativo brasileiro

Abstract

The Brazilian’s agroindustrial complex is comprised by the country’s more important joint economic activities, being the agribusiness exportation a historical pilar of international insertion. An important part of its broadcasted image, from the academy to political and midia outlets, the agribusiness is perceived as responsible for the generation of wealth and development in Brazil (MENDONÇA, 2013, p. 25). However, the area is characterized by the big corporations’ oligopoly and there is little research on its influence in the decision making process in the country. Therefore, it becomes necessary to analyze how the North American multinational companies get access into the Brazilian’s agribusiness political articulation project. Thus, the research is led by the questioning of how the link between multinational companies to the Brazilian’s agribusiness agenda emerges. This work aims at understanding the influence of foreign multinationals in the agribusiness lobby. The specific objectives are: (I) Identify the main elements of lobby; (II) Map the main actors of the political project, and; (III) Understand the influence in the public policies, through the legislative agenda. For so, the methodology used will be qualitative, with the hypothetical-deductive approach method. There are two main hypothesis: (H1) the Brazilian’s agribusiness agenda is broadly influenced by North American multinationals; (H2) this influence is then transformed into a production model that generates and unsustainable cost to society in the long term. In this way, the method of systematic review of the bibliography is used to develop the theoretical discussion regarding lobby and the theoretical grounds of the research. For the empirical section of the research, the methodology used is documental and Brazilian legislation analysis.