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Abstract
The article makes an analysis of the way of insertion of the shrimp culture
in the Northeast Brazil, in particular Local Productive Arrangements (LPA) of shrimp
cultivation in the Ceará State, in global production chains and its governance structure
because the
cultivation systems of these cretaceous are concentrated in the Northeast, and,
currently, Ceará is the largest producer of cultured shrimp from Brazil and presents along
of its water parting there are two characteristic LPAs (east coast and west coast) that were strongly inserted in the international market through global production chains. The study was based on a survey of
secondary data and interviews with the companies’ managers, owners and other LPAs’ agents. Main findings of the
research show that the insertion of LPAs of companies still happens quite dependent on large international buyers,
and the benefits generated, in large part, are appropriated out of the productive sphere, influencing the productive
and innovative capabilities of local producers. The coordination structure is vertical, with some asymmetry degree
in power relations between different segments of agents, being the main stages of the value chain controlled, in part,
by external agents to arrangements.