Abstract

BAMPI, Aumeri Carlos et al. Expansion of the capitalist agricultural frontier in the Baixo Araguaia Brasileiro (MT): environmental amendments and socio-territorial conflicts. Estudios Socioterritoriales [online]. 2017, vol.21. ISSN 1853-4392.

The study aimed at verifying the expansion of capitalist agricultural frontier and its aftermath in low Araguaia, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Literature review and search of data in historical and geographical records were used as methodology with a qualitative analysis. The first inhabitants of this area were indigenous communities and between 1910 and 1940 little squatters stepped into the region. Two phases modified the region profoundly: the first was the arrival of large cattle farms in the 1950s and 1960s on indigenous areas. Large farming enterprises inserted the capitalist system, causing severe socio-environmental disruption and environmental degradation. The second, in 1970, had as its keynote the entering of Southern migrants that brought deforestation in the area. Nowadays the landscape transformation is enhanced by the inclusion of soy monoculture linked to agribusiness corporations.

Keywords : Socio-environmental conflicts; Baixo Araguaia; Capitalist frontier.

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