The Green Gold of Mercosur - The Strength of Latin American Agribusiness Through the Social Solidarity Economy.

Abstract

This article is bibliographical research on the performance of agricultural cooperatives belonging to the solidary social economy in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, members of the economic bloc of the Common Market of the South known internationally as Mercosur. The research has a historical introduction, and after this part, the current legal statute was analyzed for an empowerment of the enterprises in vogue since the formation of the economic bloc. In the second part, the macroeconomic and political environment of these four member countries was analyzed. Thus, describing the paradoxes present in these undertakings. In the last part, an analysis was carried out based on Michael Porter, where the lines of financing for cooperative agricultural enterprises of solidarity economy and agriculture currently available in the Mercosur environment are identified.