Abstract
Since the early 2000s, increased global demand for agrofood commodities, particularly soybeans and beef, has driven rapid agrarian change in Latin America. The greatest relative land-use and land-cover change has taken place in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, resulting in new social-ecological concerns. This chapter presents the dramatic agrarian change, which has transformed both social relations and forms of production throughout the region. The chapter also contains a description of the perspectives and methods used in this book. The general framework combines three parts: (1) history that relates the recent agrarian change to previous transformative periods, (2) a commodity chain approach situates soybean and beef in wider international commodity chains, and (3) a close examination of regulations that illuminate the previously neglected role of the state and enable a critical comparison of the national regulatory frameworks and their role in agrarian change in contemporary agrofood globalization.
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