Lee Mackey
Lee Mackey is a doctoral student in the Department of Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research analyzes the rise of Brazilian agro-innovation, foreign aid and agroindustrial development in Latin America. Lee is a Research Associate at the UCLA North American Integration and Development Center and holds a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from UCLA. Email: glmack@ucla.edu |
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Research on Land-grabbing:
The Green and the Gold: Brazilian Elites in the Regional Production of Ethanol Frontiers in Latin America
A recent six-million hectare land acquisition by Brazilian producers in Mozambique announces the emergence and global scale of Brazil as a BRICS driver of land-based investments. The differences in land grabbing between Latin America and Africa as well as the important regional role of Brazilian Trans(Latinas) require closer analysis of Brazilian actors as shapers of land-based investments and land property change in Latin America. This research draws a regional portrait of Brazilian agro-energy drivers in Latin America by disaggregating the visions, actions, and future strategies of Brazilian actors in the sugar ethanol complex through analysis of time-series data on agroindustrial sector investments, exports and consulting projects in Latin America as well as key informant interviews and content analysis with important regional firms in the Brazilian sugar ethanol complex.
