Land use and conflicts over land in Amapa – Amazon – Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Lomba, Roni Mayer
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Schweitzer, Alejandro Fabian, Porto, Jadson Luís Rebelo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Redes (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/redes/article/view/15214
• topic: Land conflicts. Amazon from Amapa. Frontier. Land Use.; Disputas territoriales. Amazonia amapaense. Frontera. Planificación territorial.; Disputas territoriais. Amazônia amapaense. Fronteira. Ordenamento territorial.

This article analyzes the agricultural conflicts involving the traditional peasantry and the great capitalist activities in the State of Amapa, Brazilian Amazon. We seek to unveil, through the agricultural geography, and the advance of the frontier, the characteristics of the occupation, the genesis of the local peoples, the policies of land use and how they have benefited certain groups towards the access to land and exploration of natural resources. Essentially, the conflicts are established by the expansion of the agriculture in public lands occupied by peasants that are landholders, by the construction of dams for hydroelectric plants, affecting riverside populations for the deforestation and mineral exploration, harming indigenous peoples and others. The research is developed through a critical analysis via dialectical materialism with a theoretical and historical review of the place, of the dynamics of the frontier, execution of qualitative interviews and construction of quali-quantitative data. It is concluded that the existence of a local political project serves the great private interests, towards a society that claims for their rights to the territorry, which is their livelihood.