From Food Production to Commodity Production in Argentina's Agricultural Sector

An analysis of the semiotic and productive transformation of food crops under Argentina's agribusiness model through a study of the diffusion of the term commodity in the discourse produced/reproduced by the rural sections of the hegemonic media, combined with statistical data that allow a dialogue between discourse and measurable quantities, concludes that defining the Argentine countryside as a place for commodity production is linked with increasing crop production for export that leads to the erosion of food sovereignty and food security.