A Nova região geográfica imediata de Montes Claros - MG: um estudo sobre o Índice de Desenvolvimento Rural (IDR)

Abstract

The rural space differs from the urban by several conditions, either by the means of production of the space, by the distance from the urban facilities, by the strong interaction with nature, or by the low population density. Since the 1960s, the rural space has shown changes in the most diverse sectors, in which it caused the process of spatial reconfiguration that affected both urban and rural spaces. These transformations are evident today and the developmentalist policies and the state legislative and organizational bodies set to reorganize the Brazilian states from a new regionalization and reconfiguration of spaces. As the main episode, in 2017 IBGE proposed a new regionalization of the States through Immediate and Intermediate Geographical Regions, replacing the Microregions and Mesoregions. Researchers of the rural space sought to develop new proposals for analysis to implement improvements in all sectors of the countryside. Thus, this investigative work aims to study the Rural Development Index - IDR of the municipalities belonging to the Immediate Geographical Region of Montes Claros – MG, based on data from the 2010 demographic census and thus, quantitatively, identify the levels of development in different sectors of the rural space, as well as populational, economic, social and environmental of the municipalities belonging to the region. The methodological inspiration came from the contributions organized and applied by Kageyama (2004), from the perspective of classifying municipalities at levels of rural development. The Immediate Geographical Region of Montes Claros is in different circumstances in its current natural, economic and political-social context, which in most cases involve the lack of diverse opportunities and, consequently, leaving the countryside. The results obtained found that the region studied has potential contributors to rural development, although there is a certain inequality in the sector investments of each subindex that resulted in the low IDR of some municipalities. Through these studies, new investment proposals can be thought of and introduced in this space, in order to improve the IDR of each municipality.