A insustentabilidade do agronegócio : um diferente olhar para a agricultura do estado de Goiás

Abstract

Agribusiness in Brazil is presented as a development model. Your participation in the country's exports; your contribution to balancing the scales commercial; the jobs generated in the grain-soy complex and in the sugarcane complex; The ethanol production, sold as “clean energy”; Finally, there are a series of arguments that seek to justify the high investment in the agribusiness production chain. These arguments are made with the intention of masking the problems caused by this agriculture model: concentration (land, income and wealth); intensive use of pesticides; contamination of water, soil, people; degrading work. This In this way, the present work seeks to constitute itself as an element of opposition to the arguments that legitimize agribusiness. To carry out this task, this work has the general objective of understanding the process of agribusiness expansion in the state of Goiás and its socio-environmental impacts. In this sense, we also seek to: understand how was the process of emergence of agribusiness after the war; analyze the social, political, economic and environmental impacts of the modernization process of agriculture on the territory of Goiás; study the socio-environmental impacts of agriculture capitalist, based on the increasing use of pesticides; understand/understand advancement recent development of agribusiness in the state of Goiás, taking as a starting point companies from the agribusiness. Methodologically, this work was carried out based on a broad bibliographical consultation regarding the topic in question. Research in doctoral theses, master's theses and numerous articles that address socio-environmental issues involving agribusiness were of fundamental importance for the construction of this monograph. It is also considered, as a fundamental element for the methodological development of this work, the work developed throughout three years at GWATÁ – Center for Agroecology and Rural Education, from State University of Goiás – University Unit of Goiás. We used, also information from secondary sources, such as IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), SEPLAN (Goiás Planning Secretariat), Institute Mauro Borges (IMB).