2020
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Márcio Júnior Benassuly Barros et al., « Agricultural frontier and territorial conflicts in the brazilian amazon : the expansion of agribusiness soybean and its impact in the Santarém plateau, Para - Amazonia - Brazil », HAL-SHS : géographie, ID : 10670/1.ey6wmk
The research presented in this article aims to analyze the expansion of the agricultural frontier and the territorial conflicts generated by the arrival of soybeans on the Santarém plateau, in the state of Pará (Amazonia, Brazil). It is a case study, the methodology is based on two approaches: the synthesis of the literature and the field work carried out over the past two decades. The research followed the following stages: state of the bibliographic art, field work, focusing on direct observations, non-directive interviews with community members, local leaders, photographic archives, remote sensing and mapping. The main results show that the introduction of soybean in the municipality of Santarém, from 1996, led to deep territorial transformations, particularly for the communities lead into a territorial conflict, faced with the expansion of the agricultural frontier.