Antônio Márcio Buainain is senior lecturer of Economics at the Institute of Economics at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), in Campinas, Brazil. He is also a researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology on Public Policy, Strategies and Development and at the Center for Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Unicamp. His research areas are agricultural and rural development, including extensive work on innovation in agriculture, agrarian reform, rural poverty and agricultural policies in Brazil and Latin America.

Rodrigo Lanna is associate professor at the Institute of Economics, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. He is also a researcher at the Center for Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Unicamp. His research has focused on agricultural economics and finance and his current work on agricultural finance includes price and volatility analysis, risk management and credit issues in agriculture.

Zander Navarro is a senior researcher at the Brazilian Corporation for Agricultural Research (Embrapa), Brazil. A sociologist specializing in "rural social processes", he was previously a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, UK from 2003 to 2009.

List of editors and contributors. Abbreviations and acronyms. Introduction. 1. Agriculture, industry, and the economy: from extensive farming to a global agro-food power. 2. Rural Brazil: the demise of its agrarian past, 1968-2018. 3. Agricultural development in Brazil: the role of agricultural policies. 4. The restructuring of Brazilian agri-chains: the role of value chains. 5. Global competitiveness of the Brazilian agri-food sector: strategies and policies. 6. Innovation and development of Brazilian agriculture: research, technology, and institutions. 7. Bioenergy and biofuels in Brazil. 8. Agriculture and the environment: a conflictive and ambiguous antinomy in recent Brazilian development. 9. Rural Brazil: a social and economic space without farmers?. 10. Employment and forms of occupation in rural Brazil: from minifundio-latifundio to regulated rural labour market. 11. The fate of family farming under the new pattern of agrarian development in Brazil. 12. Structural heterogeneity in rural Brazil: three regional cases. 13. Challenges of current land governance in Brazil: beyond the historical, political and social demands for land reform. 14. Intellectual trajectories about the Brazilian agrarian transition. References. Index