The meaning of the process of agricultural modernization and environmental impacts in cerrado areas

Abstract

In this article we seek to develop a critical analysis of the occupation process of the Cerrado, based on the economic policies developed in Brazil from the twentieth century. For the purposes of discussion, we first dealt with the main programs developed for occupation of the cerrado; in the second, the environmental impacts that occurred from the implantation of the capitalist model of production. It is noticed that the governmental actions privileged the interests of agribusiness; A factor that has resulted in the destruction of fauna and flora and the biotic components that survive. Therefore, the occupation of the Cerrado mediated by territorial policies served as an incentive to the economic exploitation of the biome to favor large agricultural enterprises, neglecting all the biotic components that guarantee the natural balance of the life system and the work of the man of the field.