Da apropriação da terra ao domínio do território: as estratégias do agronegócio na amazônia brasileira from the land appropriation to the domain of the territory: the strategies of agribusiness in the brazilian amazon
International Journal of Development Research
Da apropriação da terra ao domínio do território: as estratégias do agronegócio na amazônia brasileira from the land appropriation to the domain of the territory: the strategies of agribusiness in the brazilian amazon
Received 17th September, 2017; Received in revised form 24th October, 2017; Accepted 29th November, 2017; Published online 29th December, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Ricardo Gilson da Costa Silva. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In the last decades, the territorial dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon have moved from an economic geography based on extractivism, with little labor and a low intensity technology, to the agriculture, where commodities production represents the presence of agribusiness in the largest tropical forest in the world. Two central issues prevail in this process: the metamorphosis of land into private property and the formation of a stock of land for the appropriation and domination of agribusiness in the region. In these terms, protected areas, under the control of the State, are systematically reviewed by the hegemonic agribusiness agents, aiming to broaden and deepen the globalized agricultural frontier in the region. Thus, land trade and pressure on protected areas indicate the new political agenda of the hegemonic agribusiness forces in the Amazon.
