Agrarian Mercosur: Integration for Whom?

In this work, we study the effect of the formation of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) on the agrarian structure. This process of regional integration was guided by the peripheral realism political perspective and within the framework of open regionalism which consecrated open markets as the mo...

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Autor principal: Cantamutto, Francisco
Formato: Revistas
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2010
Acceso en línea:https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/428
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Sumario:In this work, we study the effect of the formation of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) on the agrarian structure. This process of regional integration was guided by the peripheral realism political perspective and within the framework of open regionalism which consecrated open markets as the most developed aspect of the new block. This process tended to favor large capital. In the countryside, on the other hand, family farms began to be displaced and the large landholding model to be reinforced, characterized by monocultures oriented to export, a model organized according to capitalist production relations.