Chinese investments in the Argentinian meat industry and their implications for a sustainable development
This subproject analyzes the meat industry in Argentina and concentrates on the investments and strategies of Chinese stakeholders with a major interest in the production of meat in Argentina. The growing export of meat from China and the announcing of larger investment projects are part of a geopolitical context of intensifying relations between China and Argentina. However, this is happening on the basis of hierarchies and inequalities between both countries. Against this backdrop, the subproject researchers are looking at the meat industry in Argentina and the developmental strategies based on it as well as the strategies’ impact on production relations, economic sustainability, and inequality both in and between Argentina and China. The relationships between Chinese actors and Argentinian politics, local economic stakeholders, and civic stakeholders, as well as the impact of dominant production strategies on the implementation of the UN Sustainability Goals, will also be illuminated.