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Agricultura familiar e desenvolvimento rural sustentável na Amazônia
(2005-06) HURTIENNE, Thomas Peter
The article presents a critical review of theoretical and methodological concepts upon which analytical works about Amazonian peasantries since the 1960s have been based. The vision of Amazon peasants as shifting cultivators with low productivity who destroy their ecological habitat and are condemned to disappear due to the advance of large landowners (the model of the frontier cycle) is contrasted with the tendency for the consolidation of family agriculture based on more complex production systems, including permanent cultures, small animal husbandry and cattle. This tendency is more clearly evident in the Northeast of Pará, but has also been statistically confirmed for the State of Pará and the Northern Region of Brazil. This means that the hypothesis of the frontier cycle has limited validity for older colonization regions. However, recent research on borders showed production systems which concentrate on cattleraising in the South of Pará and on permanent cultures in the Transamazônica region. These systems cannot simply be classified as shifting cultivation but represent different trajectories from that of the Northeast of Pará.
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Agricultura familiar na Amazônia Oriental: uma comparação dos resultados da pesquisa socioeconômica sobre fronteiras agrárias sob condições históricas e agroecológicas diversas
(1999-12) HURTIENNE, Thomas Peter
Na Amazônia Oriental, a agricultura familiar representa uma parte economicamente significativa do setor agrário. O enfoque dominante qualifica-a como uma agricultura nômade, ineficiente e insustentável, baseada no modelo do ciclo da fronteira (a agricultura familiar é expulsa pelas grandes fazendas de gado) e no modelo clássico de ecologia tropical da floresta amazônica. Resultados da pesquisa ecológica recente mostram que o modelo precisa ser revisado em vários aspectos relacionados diretamente com a sustentabilidade da agricultura familiar. Uma reconstrução histórica do desenvolvimento dos sistemas de produção de Igarapé-Açu e uma comparação com dados sobre outras fronteiras mais recentes no Pará mostram que, dependendo do desenvolvimento histórico específico da fronteira agrária, dos fatores condicionantes ecológicos e econômicos e das condições macroeconômicas, uma ampla diversidade de trajetórias relativamente estáveis do desenvolvimento agrário pode ser identificada.
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Análise socioeconômica dos sistemas de uso de terra por pequenos produtores agrários na Amazônia oriental
(2004-12) HURTIENNE, Thomas Peter
This article examines the dynamics of agricultural systems used by small farmers in the northeast of the State of Pará (Brazil). Its goal is to relate specific forms of shifting cultivation and extractive industry in Amazonia with endogenous processes of economic decision making. It has resonated on the system dynamics, and public policies, which as of the 70’s have focused on agricultural modernization and creation of permanent crops, thus contributing to the achievement of agro-ecologic and agro-economic barriers. Based on the new dynamics, small family enterprises in Amazonia have to cope with public and private actions, which undermine their stability.
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A dinâmica dos sistemas de produção, as estratégias de intensificação e o papel da tecnologia de mulch na economia familiar
(2004-06) FIGUEIREDO, Raul Batista de; HURTIENNE, Thomas Peter
Family agriculture in Cumaru, northeast of the State of Pará, established through spontaneous settlements, is a dynamic agriculture, formed through an internal development process and the migration of individuals from the northeast of Brazil. Our study evaluates the use of non-burning techniques in the development of production systems, analyzing the evolution of family establishments in Cumaru, their intensification strategy, and most particularly, the role of mulching and enrichment in family economies.
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Questão fundiária e sucessão da terra na fronteira Oeste da Amazônia
(2008-12) BENATTI, José Heder; CASTRO, Edna Maria Ramos de; HURTIENNE, Thomas Peter; SANTOS, Roberto Araújo de Oliveira; PORTELA, Roselene de Souza
In Brazil, in the second half of the 20th century, several state land organizations were created, which tried to solve the growing confl icts for lands. One of the main objectives of these state land organizations was to garantee the access to the rural property, that is, to make that the largest number of people could have a piece of land to work. Another role was that of the management of the public patrimony. However, in practice, one noticed that the management summed up more in incorporating the devoluted lands into the patrimony and then transferring them to private people, than in thinking about a policy in which the way of use and management of the natural resources would be defi ned by the institutes of lands. We tried to show this issue related to the production of several forms of land conflicts linked to the performance of the state land organizations, as well as the understanding of these confl icts in a new legal and political conjuncture, since it is necessary to define, in the governmental organizational structure, which one is the state organization or the instance responsible for the execution of the land policy, for management of the natural renewed resources and, principally, for the devoluted lands. The analysis of the land situation and of the confl icts in the area of Br-163 (Cuiabá-Santarém Road) is highlighted in how the visualization of the land structure is important for the elaboration of a strategic plan of a social, economical and ecological ordering.