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1AGRICULTURE IN BRAZIL: FROM THE 1980’s TO THE G-20MAURO MASON DE CAMPOS ADORNOThesis Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements of the Degree of Master byCoursework in International Policy StudiesSchool of PoliticsFaculty of Humanities and Social SciencesLa Trobe UniversityBundoora, Victoria 3083Australia
 
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 Abstract The Brazilian economy transformed from a state of financial crisis in the 1980’s to become aleading agriculture exporter in the late 1990’s. Economic reforms implemented by the Real Planwere a response to a bankrupt decade of failed economic plans and high inflation rates. In this period agriculture played a key role in the control of the inflation and in the stabilization of theeconomy. The domestic environment of the Brazilian economy and the role of agriculture helped  Brazil to develop a more active role and led it to seek for a leadership position in theinternational agricultural negotiations. On the eve on the WTO’s Cancun Round of negotiation anew coalition of developing countries formed the G-20. The Group was born from a Brazilianinitiative and for the first time a group of developing countries stood up against the developed countries in the agriculture negotiations.
 
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 Acknowledgments I would like to dedicate this thesis to my mother Ana and my brother Matheus. Who believed inme even when I did not. I love you guys. I would like to thank my Father for the support, during the whole process, even at 4 am, WilliamWyle my good friend and housemate, Celina Italiano and her beautiful family, my adviser Anthony Jarvis, who was always a sea of calm and never lost hope in me and also to thank all my friends and family who through phone calls or emails were there for me.
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