Agricultura familiar e desenvolvimento rural sustentável na Amazônia
The article presents a critical review of theoretical and methodological concepts upon which analytical works about Amazonian peasantries since the 1960s have been based. The vision of Amazon peasants as shifting cultivators with low productivity who destroy their ecological habitat and are con...
| Autor principal: | HURTIENNE, Thomas Peter |
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| Grau: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | por |
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2012
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http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/3173 |
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The article presents a critical review of theoretical and methodological concepts upon which analytical works about
Amazonian peasantries since the 1960s
have been based. The vision of Amazon
peasants as shifting cultivators with low
productivity who destroy their ecological
habitat and are condemned to disappear
due to the advance of large landowners
(the model of the frontier cycle) is contrasted with the tendency for the consolidation of family agriculture based on more complex production systems, including
permanent cultures, small animal husbandry
and cattle. This tendency is more clearly
evident in the Northeast of Pará, but has also been statistically confirmed for the State of Pará and the Northern Region of Brazil. This means that the hypothesis of the frontier cycle has limited validity for older colonization regions. However, recent
research on borders showed production
systems which concentrate on cattleraising
in the South of Pará and on permanent
cultures in the Transamazônica region. These systems cannot simply be classified
as shifting cultivation but represent different trajectories from that of the Northeast of Pará. |