CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE A APROPRIAÇÃO DO ESPAÇO MARANHENSE PELO AGRONEGÓCIO DA SOJA: a ideologia do desenvolvimento e a acumulação de terras na microrregião dos Gerais de Balsas

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the expansion of soybean agribusiness in the micro-region of Gerais de Balsas andincreased poverty. Reflection on the production of space in modern farming of soybeans, the production relationsof agribusiness. We seek some notes for the debate about the speech that carries on agribusiness developmentfor the region, from documents of the state, and especially of public investors, such as BNDES. This searchpoints that in Maranhão for one side the IDH, per capita income and the PIB increased, in the other side happeneda concentration of the lands and income for the big agribusiness, in detriment of the impoverishment and theexpulsion of peasantry.

Keywords

• Development
• agribusiness
• soy
• poverty.