Introduction -- The Soy Complex in Latin America -- Land Control: Bolivia’s Agrarian Structure and Frontier Expansion -- State Control: The Politics of Agrarian Change -- Value-Chain Control: Relations of Debt and Dependency -- Agrarian Extractivism and the Politics of Control -- Conclusion.

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