Territórios norte-mineiros: entre os empreendimentos do capital e a destruição do cerrado pelo monocultivo de eucalipto

Abstract

The present study aims to contextualize and analyze how development projects have impacted the northern territories of Minas Gerais with regard to land, economic, water, energy and mineral aspects, between the years 2002 and 2022. Some categories analyzed will seek to delve deeper into the agrarian issue in Brazil, such as large development projects, territories, and spatial arrangements. Thus, the implementation of eucalyptus monoculture via agribusiness incentive projects in Bocaiúva is seen as an analytical case to explain the expansion of capital in this region of the state of Minas Gerais. Both in the north of Minas Gerais and in the municipality of Bocaiúva there are issues to be understood in relation to the impacts and destruction of the Cerrado related to eucalyptus monoculture and other enterprises resulting from the advance of capital. We combined a research methodology, a broad review of literature and documents, such as records from newspapers, magazines, books, articles and other research that have already been written on the topic and the conduct and analysis of semi-structured interviews with workers of companies in the eucalyptus production chain, as well as leaders of regional social movements on the socio environmental and economic impacts of eucalyptus monoculture. We will use maps in series to analyze the occupied area and possible changes in water courses. It is important to highlight that the construction of this research is not just a search for the appropriation of the research method, not just the qualification of theoretical accumulation. It is a process that is not separated from the social political construction imbued with meaning, which is based on a civilizational model that has as meaning life, the human, nature, the Cerrado and social justice.