State Agricultural Policy, Yes. Anti-Politics, No!
Publicado em 04/09/2025
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Agriculture demands strategies and state policies that go far beyond ideological discussions.
Published on September 1st 2025
Agriconscient Show- Broadcast by Radio Eldorado/Estadão-Brazil
*José Luiz Tejon
Translated/Copy Desk by Teacher Francisco Barbosa Bardhal
The concept of Agribusiness emerged from a vision by Dr. Ray Goldberg at Harvard/USA in the 1950s as a synthesis of the sum total of factors before, inside, and after the farm gate. Agriculture encompasses factors of human history on Earth that go beyond commerce and business itself. It represents the possibility of life producing food, from ancient times for survival, evolving to bartering in medieval fairs, and today into a mix of commerce, agrI-industrialization, and marketing.
However, its essence remains and continues to be the "Security and Sovereignty" of a people, of a nation.
Thus, agriculture demands strategies and State Policies that go far beyond ideological discussions of Left, Center, or Right political parties and affairs.
This week, the trial begins of the former president of the Republic, who polarized the word "Agribusiness." This week, American farmers are begging Trump to "close the deal" on U.S. soybeans with China. This week, President Lula considers applying retaliation against Donald Trump's tariff war, a move clearly not desired by business sectors.
This week, human beings are dying of starvation in Gaza while politicians discuss Peace. This week, Russia and Ukraine cannot achieve Peace because the Ukrainian territories invaded by Russia are fertile lands essential for Russian energy and food sovereignty.
This week, Brazilian farmers are making planting decisions for a potential new super harvest in a country that discovered how to produce food and energy in the planet's tropical environment.
And these farmers' decisions are made under uncertain settings of risk, insecurity, national and international uncertainties. And all of this matter is above and beyond the mere use of the word "Agribusiness," for hunger, misery, social inequality, climate change, life and peace, human dignity on Earth. Food and environmental health are certainly much deeper issues than just the concept of Business itself.
And how about our State Policies serving food, energy, social, and environmental security?
Certainly, agriculture is a matter of State Policies, with medium and long-term visions, from infrastructure—repeatedly mentioned on this blog—such as storage, logistics, insurance, education, research, and technology, alongside international relations and cooperation.
Therefore, Left, Center, or Right are just fad waves that break on the beaches or on the rocks of the coastal slopes; They´re often "Pororocas" (a gigantic phenomenon that occurs when the Amazon River meets the Atlantic Ocean) in conflicts and struggles between egos, which create Egonomies and Geopolitication, which originate from errors, incompetence, and an unjust "Anti-Politics." Agriculture requires a commitment greater than and beyond the transient electoral cycles.
Last Sunday's Estadão newspaper (August 31), on page A3 of the insert, the opinion piece addressed "The Poison of Anti-Politics."
In that editorial, Anti-politics stands for "The bad Politics that is the Poison."
Thus, agriculture demands strategies and state policies that go far beyond ideological debates about Left, Center, or Right political parties and affairs
There, from a Genial/Quaest survey, journalist Mr.César Felicio, from Valor Econômico News, revealed that "27% of Brazilian voters prefer someone from outside Politics for the presidency of the Republic."
This survey reveals much more than a search for novelty: It shows the lack of leadership with legitimacy for the true republican cause.
Agriculture is above this or that candidate. Agriculture predates and transcends the definition of the term Agribusiness
In a polarized and divided world, as we know and see in politicians' behaviour and the non-application of just Policy, food has the mission to unite the world, as stated by the creator of the Agribusiness concept in an interview he granted me, available on the website: www.agricitizenship.com.
I'm referring to Professor Ray Goldberg, who sent a wise message for worldwide Agribusiness leaders:
"Unite the world through the Agrifood system."
Agriculture with State Policy, YES; With Anti-Politics, NO!
Agribusiness will be the result of this decision.
*Prof.Dr.José Luiz Tejon - PhD in Education Universidad de La Empresa/Uruguay; Academic Director Brazil+Tropical Belt Nations at International Agribusiness MBA Audencia France & Fecap Brazil; Master's degree in Art Education and History of Culture - Mackenzie University; Journalist and Publicist - Harvard, MIT and PACE/USA/ Insead in France; Specialization Academic Coordinator of Master's Science Food & Agribusiness Management at Audencia in Nantes/ France, and FECAP/Brazil; Managing Partner at Biomarketing and TCA International; Professional Head at Agri Anefac; Writer, author and co-author of 37 books; Agri Personality Award 2023/ABAG -100 Most Influential People in Agribusiness; Former director of Grupo Estadão, Agroceres and Jacto S/A; 2025 Award Agriworld Group.
