The role of agriculture defence coalitions in the agendas of the Brazilian foreign trade policy

The article examines the evolution of foreign policy-making in Brazil, in relation to political actors associated with the two main agricultural models that coexist within the country - Agribusiness and Family Farming. In this aspect, this work sheds light on the ongoing process of pluralization and politicization of foreign policy vis-a-vis disputes that mobilize different coalitions of political actors in the domestic realm. We combine elements from foreign policy analysis with instruments from the cognitive approach of public policy analysis, accepting that political actors embody ideas and policies are ideas put in action. As a result, we derive a theoretically oriented tracking of social processes to identify the main political actors of the two coalitions focused on, through highlighting the different paths of interaction and asymmetric degrees of openness and participation in the foreign policy-making