Brasil - a potência agroexportadora: dilemas e perspectivas econômicas, sociais e culturais

Abstract

Historically, Brazil is known around the world as a major producer and exporter of commodities, with the status of an agro-export power always remaining present within the Brazilian nation. However, much is said about the geoclimatic conditions that make this configuration possible, and little is discussed about the process of formation of an agro-export power – this has also been a choice taken several times -, for the maintenance of such status. It was a choice to the extent that the decisions on the industrialization theme were usually very timid, lacking long-term projects, and always remaining on the sidelines of the country's agro-export interests - since much of the industrialization that took place in Brazil took place to meet the interests of the agricultural sector - and as, in the cultural core of Brazilian society, an increasing identification with the modus operandi of the agricultural man had been built. Thus, this study aims at addressing the development of these choices, both economic and sociocultural, which have reinforced, throughout past and present history, the maintenance of the agricultural status in Brazil. Among the main results found from the research, we can highlight the excess of stop-and-go policies in Brazil, which hinder a State project in the medium and long term. We also observed a certain comfort in the Brazilian agro-export position, which sometimes meant that other socioeconomic segments were neglected. Finally, we can also observe a Brazilian drop in the economic complexity atlas ranking, which denotes a reprimarization of our economy.