Labor, resistance and health of peasantry in Brazil and in Mexico

• Grant number: 18/12944-7
• Support type: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Effective date (Start): September 10, 2018
• Effective date (End): March 09, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Dornelis Carvalhal
• Grantee: Angela dos Santos Machado
• Supervisor abroad: Francisco Luciano Concheiro Borquez
• Home Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco (UAM Xochimilco), Mexico
• Associated to the scholarship: 17/11731-7 - Sugarcane productive restructuring and implications for seated workers' health in the Paranapanema Pontal (SP), BP.MS

Abstract

The agriculture hegemonic model, based on the search for profit, transforming food into commodities which are speculated in the stock exchange and under the rule of multinational companies, whose parent companies are located in developed capitalism countries, has imposed over Latin America an agricultural way of production that is reliant and submissive to the international market causing consequences to small agricultural producers. Both in Mexico and in Brazil, one can realize the need of the peasants to work in extra jobs to survive. Those considerations base our concern to understand the peasants reality, life, work and health conditions, as well as their struggle and resistance setting convergences between the peasantry from Pontal do Paranapanema (São Paulo) and from Valle de San Quintín (Baja California, Mexico).