Internacionalização e agricultura: a fruticultura tropical no Rio Grande do Norte no contexto da mundialização

Abstract

Internationalization is an element of the economy’s globalization process, acting in an increasing pace and intensity on the promotion and selective integration of territories. In agriculture, the explanations to this economic, political and geographical phenomenon is on the productive (re)organization of the territory, demanding new agricultural uses based on the commodities production. Our aim is to understand Rio Grande do Norte’s internationalization, from tropical fruit farming, in the context of globalization. This study is focused on the melon, cashew nut, banana, papaya and pineapple crops, intending to cover different productive segments of fruit farming. Therefore, based on the assumption that the production of fruits in Rio Grande do Norte is an activity intended to regional markets’ food supply, mostly, European Union and North America, established with external transactions of standardization and control of food producer markets and the connection between production and consumption through a complex network in the movement of capital and goods in discontinuous territories. It is, then, possible to assess that the dynamics of Rio Grande do Norte’s fruit farming is characterized by agriculture internationalization from the changing on the core countries’ food safety understanding, controlling the food global markets, standardized by the imposition of good agricultural practices protocols.