Digitalized agriculture and disparities in the brazilian countryside

Abstract

The themes of the seminar "Urban space, poverty and neoliberalism: the construction and reconstruction of collective spatial practices" and the panel "The right to territory: the contradictions between the national and the global" are important, urgent and topical, because they bring to the debate the challenge of undertaking geographical studies on reality in motion and in an inter-scalar way, especially when dealing with the intensification of the information networks in the territory, when the technical scientific information environment becomes more complex and encompasses the countryside as well as the city. This process encompasses the multinationalization of firms and the internationalization of production and products, and highlights the contradictions between the national and the global, especially at the current juncture in which circulation is increasingly important, along with information, which is essential for capitalist accumulation, linking places instantaneously and simultaneously. In this context, we propose a discussion derived from the research being carried out during post-doctorate studies on digitalized agriculture, the disparities in the Brazilian countryside and the role of the agents who control the internet networks.