2017-03-102017-03-102016-04-08FERREIRA, Vanilda Araújo. As influências socioeconômicas e ambientais da cadeia produtiva do dendê no desenvolvimento local do baixo Tocantins. 2016. 137 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos, Belém, 2016. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Trópico Úmido.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/7846This paper investigates the social, economic and environmental influences of the "palm oil agrobusiness" in the dynamics of the local development of “Baixo Tocantins”. According to the strategic nature of the research, the method used was the quali-quantitative type, from the perception of integrated local agents of the chain production. We conducted interviews and collected secondary data in order to identify, analyze and interpret the factors of socioeconomic and environmental impacts and externalities which are configuring people’s quality of life.The results showed that the introduction of the chain production of palm oil in “Baixo Tocantins”, with monoculture features, is producing a wave of negative socioeconomic and environmental effects in the form of vertical integration of production. The family rural worker has become a kind of “employee outsourced “of the company, through a contractual relationship in which the absence of participatory decision-making mechanisms shows that the power structure and the forces that determine the governance of the chain production of palm oil are controlled in a unilateral way by Agropalma. This process is supported by the weakness of the social organization of these workers in the surveyed communities, reflecting the low level of awareness among farmers about the importance of social organization as a tool for empowering these social subjects. This environment neither allows local communities to accumulate enough capital, nor enjoys good quality of life, with a guarantee of substantive freedoms and appropriate environmental conditions that can induce endogenously, a dynamic path of local development. It is expected through this search a contribution to deepen the discussion about the implementation of public policies in rural areas, particularly those related to the expansion of palm oil culture as one of the possibilities to recover deforested areas and promote regional development, based on integration between agribusiness and small family rural worker in Para state.Acesso AbertoAgricultura familiarAgroindústriaDendêPlanejamento regionalImpacto socioambientalDesenvolvimento localDendeiculturaRegião do Baixo-Tocantins - PAAmazônia brasileiraDissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA::GEOGRAFIA HUMANA::GEOGRAFIA AGRARIA