STRUCTURAL AND SPATIAL CHANGES IN AGRICULTURE

Mesquita, Fernando; Furtado, André Tosi

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Article • Mercator (Fortaleza) 18 • 2019 • https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2019.e18022 copy

STRUCTURAL AND SPATIAL CHANGES IN AGRICULTURE

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Abstract

From a region where until the end of XIX century the cattle was the only profitable production, the South of the State of Goiás became one of the cores of Brazilian agribusiness. Besides the cattle, the region also stands out in the production of soybean, corn, sugarcane, and poultry. This change involved different process of regional and urban organization. Using the South of Goiás case, this paper aims to comprehend how structural and spatial changes were combined in the transformation of a late region in a dynamic agricultural region. To study this process, the structural changes of this region were divided into four phases. The spatial changes were thought according to four possibilities based on fragmentation and integration forces. The idea is to combine both structural and spatial changes to define the historical trajectory of urban and regional growth in the South of Goiás.

Keywords:
Agribusiness; Structural Changes; Spatial Changes; South of Goiás

Phase	Period	Main activities
First	Beginning of the nineteenth century until the mid-1920s	Livestock
Second	Mid-1940s until the mid-1970s	Livestock/Rice
Third	Mid-1970s until the beginning of the 2000s	Livestock/Soybean
Fourth	The 2000s until the present day	Livestock/grains (soybean-maize) and meat/sugarcane

Categories of analysis	Quadrant 1	Quadrant 2	Quadrant 3	Quadrant 4
Destination market for production	National	National	International	International
Capacity to generate and locate industrial linkages	Low capacity to generate linkages	Low capacity to generate linkages	High capacity to generate linkages, but are essentially external	High capacity to generate linkages and are essentially internal
Size of urban centers	Few urban linkages	Few urban linkages	Few urban centers of any great relevance	High number of relevant urban centers
Transport System	Low integration	Local integration	Integrated with ports	Integrated locally
Scientific and technologic infrastructures	Itinerant technique and absence of scientific content	Linked to traditional, cultural factors of the place	High use of science and technology, but few ties to local research	High use of Science and technology, and strongly tied to local research

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[1] (*)CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Address: UNICAMP - Instituto de Geociências. R. Carlos Gomes, 250 - Cidade Universitária, Campinas - SP, 13083-855. Tel. (+55 19) 35212581. E-mail:fernandomesquita@gmail.com