The The MATOPIBA region covers the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia, it is
an agricultural frontier focused on agribusiness with the production of commodities, mainly
soy. Many of these producers use land grabbing to further expand their properties, this method
is fraudulent, embola finds several legal tricks that benefit the grileiros. Being responsible for
serious socio-environmental consequences, such as deforestation, contamination of soils, rivers
and air by the use of pesticides, fertilizers, much violence and misery against the traditional
peoples who use these lands to maintain their subsistence. The main objective of this research
is to evaluate the socio-environmental consequences of land grabbing in MATOPIBA in the
region of Tocantins, thus knowing the socio-historical aspects of the region, Identifying the
main socio-environmental consequences caused by land grabbing relating to environmental
legislation and land regularization with the occurrence of this practice and discuss possible
ways of dealing with the socio-environmental impacts generated as a result of this political and
economic project. This debate is very important for society to discuss the real interests behind
MATOPIBA, showing how it further aggravates the socio-environmental problems in this
region, highlighting the land issue that has been suffering fraud caused by land grabbing in
order to serve the great capital. On the other hand, social movements such as the Landless Rural
Workers Movement (MST) fight against this agricultural model and against land grabbing with
the legal support of the Land Statute, Federal Constitution, Land Regularization, ecosocialism
and agroecology management. Using bibliographic research as a methodology and qualitative,
descriptive analysis and the historical-dialectical materialist method. MATOPIBA covers a vast
area full of particularities because each state has its characteristics, both territorial, cultural and
legislative, even though the text has focused especially on the area of the state of Tocantins, the
discussion about these and many other issues from this expansion of agribusiness.
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