This paper provides a contemporary and critical assessment of the development being fostered in the Brazilian sugarcane industry.
It looks in particular at the effects that the rapid expansion, modernisation and consolidation of the industry have had on labour and peasants in the country – groups of people often overlooked in a debate marked more by global environmental and food security concerns – and offers three key insights
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