Environmental conflicts in North Minas Gerais: the sevent meeting of Articulation Vazanteiros in Movement

• Autor(a) principal: Soares da Silva, Queite Marrone
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Regina Kubo, Rumi
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Argumentos (Montes Claros. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.periodicos.unimontes.br/index.php/argumentos/article/view/940
• topic: Conflitos ambientais; Norte de Minas Gerais; Vazanteiros; Projeto Jaiba; Parques Estaduais.

This work aims to contribute to the visibility of the Movement of Vazanteiros Articulation, understanding its process of organization as an instrument of struggle given the overlap of the State Parks: Verde Grande (1998), Lagoa do Cajueiro (1998) and Mata Seca (2001), built as compensation for the environmental impacts of the Jaíba Irrigated Fruit Project. Several claims were presented at the seventh Meeting of the Vazanteiros in Movement Articulation, which took place on July 28 and 29, 2017, bringing together communities that recognize themselves as traditional, among them the communities of Pau Preto, Pau de Légua and Quilombo da Lapinha, located in the municipalities of Matias Cardoso and Manga, in northern Minas Gerais. The 1950s mark the process of modernization of agriculture in Brazil, in this region, was based on irrigated agriculture / fruit growing, eucalyptus monocultures, extensive livestock and cotton monocultures. Development context proposed by the Jaíba Project, between the São Francisco and Verde Grande rivers, encompassing a structure of 86.794.59 hectares, of which 65.879.98 are intended for direct irrigation. This work results from experiences with the Interdisciplinary Center for Socio-Environmental Research of the State University of Montes Claros, unfolding in the development of the author's thesis research.