Territorialidade, agricultura e mineração (Pedra Branca do Amapari-Amapá)

Abstract

This work aims at explaining the interaction between agricultural and mining activities, the organizational capacity of the social actors and the singularities of the local development process in the municipality of Pedra Branca do Amapari. The spatial unit of reference of this study is Pedra Branca do Amapari, one of the four counties located in the Midwest territory of the State of Amapá. The methodology intends to understand how social actors (individuals, associations, public and private institutions) relate to each other. The thesis hypothesis was the county of Pedra Branca do Amapari. This territory gathers productive potentialities in its rural areas, making it easier to understand the concept of territoriality which is able to articulate the rural-urban continuum and gives visibility to elements that are relate to each other. Investment in territorial dimension is opposed to the dominant idea of the rural agricultural sector and incorporates a wide range of economic and non-economic sectors interdependently, establishing relations of integration with the urban. It was found that relational bonds exercised in the context of family farming and mining influence local development. The conclusion is that the performance of local institutions is cooperating with the density of local associational life, forming an intensive social capital that internally influences the main productive activities of the place.