Cercas velhas de arame novo: o campesinato de Monsenhor Tabosa frente à expansão das culturas para a produção de agrocombustíveis no Ceará

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Tavares, Thiago Roniere Rebouças
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Geografia agrícola; Biocombustível; Biodiesel; Politica agrícola
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/9032

The model of economic development based on the logic of amplified reproduction, typical of the capitalist mode of production, has caused a series of crisis at global level; in fact, they are intrinsic to this system and reverberate along several sectors of society. Nevertheless, the crisis and capital are not indifferent processes, on the contrary; according to the intensity and the duration of the crisis, the capital pursuits new strategies to expand itself in this incessant process of accumulation. In such a context, the agrarian space is presented as a “reservation” in which the private and public investments are channelized aiming the intensification of production in order to contain the crisis.These processes are introduced in two forms: by the territorialization of capital in the countryside and by the monopolization of territory by capital. In the present study, we aim at analyzing not only this advance of capital in the countryside, but also its dynamics of incorporation of new lands through the expansion of tillages towards the production of agrofuel. We analyze, in particular, the unfoldings in the matter initiated with the impulse of the production promoted by a public politic of the federal government called Programa Nacional de Produção e Uso de Biodiesel – PNPB. For research, I used the regressive-progressive method of Lefebvre, in order to analyze the assumptions that exist in reality studied, either from the scientific and empirical knowledge, remaining in dialogue with the existing reality and its dynamics. This way, we also prioritize the understanding of its political, social and territorial influences by analyzing the precarious conditions of the peasants, being them the social subjects of this politic. It is convenient to highlight the condition of subjugation of their work and production, considering the guidelines established by PNPB in which the peasant agriculture is one of its main axis; having in mind, the model of development of the capitalist agriculture and its strategy of integration of capital, the agribusiness, in which the cited politic corroborates. In this work was also possible to identify the political stance of social movements, especially the MST, against to the expansion of cultivation of crops for the production of agrofuels in their settlements, as well as guidance that is passed to its technicians and care for for not undermining the food sovereignty of the peasants".