The rise of agriculture and its reflexes on socio-space structures of people and traditional communities in the medium São Francisco of Minas Gerais

Abstract

Aiming to understand the dimension and consequences of agricultural activities in the socio-spatiality of the Middle São Francisco of Minas Gerais, this study proposes to make a diagnosis and discussion about the expansion of agricultural activity in land use and occupation in 1986 and 2015 in the region of North of Minas Gerais. The methodological procedures are based on the construction of a time series of analytical maps. The diagnosis concluded that the advance of agriculture contributed to the emergence of various environmental impacts; It also contributed to territorial expropriation and the loss of rights of traditional peoples and communities, compromising the reproduction of their ways of life, which in turn strengthened social movements as a strategy to resist socio-environmental impacts.

Keywords

• expropriação territorial
• norte de minas gerais
• comunidades tradicionais
• agronegócio