Impacts and resistance in the process of land foreignization in Rio Brilhante (MS): the case of federal settlement projects São Judas, Margarida Alves, Silvio Rodrigues and indigenous territory Laranjeira Ñanderu

Author(s)

Lara Dalperio Buscioli

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Presidente Prudente. 2017-03-21.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente
• Defense date: 2016-12-19
• Advisor: Bernardo Mançano Fernandes

Abstract

The process of land foreignization should be analyzed from its historical dimension and refers to the leasing and/or purchase of land by foreign companies/groups in other countries. This process intensified from the crisis of 2007/2008 when there was an increase in the demand for land to produce commodities, generating conflicts and territorial impacts, even with the discourse based on economic growth, sustainability, employment generation and food security of countries targeted by this process. In this work, we discuss the process of land foreignisation in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, focusing on the municipality of Rio Brilhante, which has an expressive production of sugarcane and territorialization of the French group Louis Dreyfus Commodities (LDC). This process creates territorial conflicts in agrarian reform settlements through the struggle of the Landless Rural Workers Movement and indigenous territory Laranjeira Ñanderu belonging to the Guarani-Kaiowá. The impacts caused by the process of land foreignisation in these territories are linked to the: 1) food production - with the loss of peasant and indigenous production due to the spraying of agrochemicals used in sugarcane plantations; 2) environmental - with soil/water poisoning due to spraying and the death of the fauna/flora of the territory; 3) health - related to respiratory, gastrointestinal and poisoning / intoxication problems of these subjects; and finally, 4) makes difficult the process of demarcation of the indigenous territory and realization of agrarian reform, as well as in the ways of life. Faced with such questions, these subjects organized forms of resistance to continue in these territories: the indigenous with actions of territorial resumption and consolidation with the tekoha encampment Laranjeira Ñanderu; with yours culture, reproducing yours rites, beliefs and customs giving character and sense to yours territory; and agrarian protests with road obstruction. The peasants, however, resist through of production and commercialization for the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) and fairs in the municipalities of Maracajú and Rio Brilhante; with their family and collective work in the lots; with its agrarian protests and meetings with the objective of prevent the entry of LDC in the settlements through their production and the transit of their trucks. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/03633-7 - PEASANT AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN MATO GROSSO DO SUL - DETERRITORIALIZATION AND RESISTANCE AGAINST LAND GRABBING
• Grantee: Lara Dalperio Buscioli
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master