Disappearing nature? Agribusiness, biotechnology and distance in Argentine soybean production

摘要: A recent trend identified in the agro-food literature is that financialization global food system further increasing distance between farm and plate as well abstracting physical commodities into market derivatives. How does food, a basic material need, become commodity, financial asset divorced from its form? This contribution explores growing abstraction of using Argentina's soy model case study. I explore various drivers distancing across value chain Argentina, including industrialization, globalization, corporatization finance. argue push for technological innovation by large-scale agribusinesses, articulation with sector involvement, are both an example instrumental process literature. paper also highlights how, despite agribusiness efforts to ‘displace’ ‘disappear’ nature, these processes never fully a...