Uso do território e gênero de vida na Amazônia: reprodução camponesa e agronegócio no planalto santareno

Abstract

We approach in this work the changes in the reproduction of peasantry of Planalto Santareno due to the advancement of soybean agribusiness in this region. We use as examples two localities peasant who have been deeply affected by this event started in the late twentieth century: the localities Tracuá (belonging to the municipality of Santarém/PA) and Jenipapo (belonging to the municipality of Belterra/PA). To achieve this purpose, we did the reconstitution of the geographical situation when these locations had not yet met with agribusiness. When soybean growers from the center-south of the country arrived, seduced by abundant and cheap land anthropized in the region, began to acquire land in these localities with quite ease and speed, therefore belonged to the peasants who were in precarious conditions of existence, desirous of better days, which perhaps could achieve with that (little) money offered. From that meeting, thus, we learned the mutations in the genre of life of the peasants, coming across on the other hand, with the clash of these opposing social. With the deep transformations in land use in these locations, is the tendency to put their disappearances - and at the same time, on another scale, the recreation of regional peasantry.