Analysis of the economic impacts of the territorialization of the sugar-energy sector and its consequences for social development in the micro-region of São José do Rio Preto: the case of the municipalities of José Bonifácio, Planalto and Ubarana

Author(s)

Lucas Pauli

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Presidente Prudente. 2019-08-21.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente
• Defense date: 2019-03-15
• Advisor: Eduardo Paulon Girardi

Abstract

In this dissertation, we start from the identification that, as of 2003, the Brazilian government has resumed encouraging the sugar-energy sector through the National Economic and Social Development Bank - BNDES in the context of agroenergy production, specifically ethanol. This led to an intense process of expansion of sugarcane plantations and mills in Brazil and especially in the state of São Paulo. As of 2006, the expansion of sugarcane in the state of São Paulo was oriented towards new areas of the state, since the traditional regions reached the limit of the expansion of the sugar-energy activity. The aim was to incorporate new lands for the sugar-energy sector in western São Paulo, with a high concentration in Pontal do Paranapanema and in the northwest of São Paulo. The micro-region of São José do Rio Preto is among those that received mills and where there was the greatest increase in planted area of sugarcane. Thus, we selected for analysis the municipalities of José Bonifácio, Planalto and Ubarana, located in the microregion in question and which are inserted in this context of expansion. In this sense, the territorialization of the sugar-energy sector, with the large industrial plants, has leveraged intense changes and economic and social impacts in the municipalities listed. Faced with this situation, the question on which the research is focused is: how may or may not these economic and social changes have contributed to development in these municipalities, given all the discussion and contradictions that involve the concept of development? Thus, with reference to a critical analysis of the process involved between development impacts and the sugar-energy sector, the objective of this research was to analyze the main economic and social impacts generated by the territorialization of the sugar-energy sector with the implementation of industrial plants and the sharp increase in the area cultivated with sugarcane in the São José do Rio Preto micro-region, specifically in the municipalities of José Bonifácio, Planalto and Ubarana, in the 2006-2015 period; whether these changes reflected in any form of social development; and then analyze the characteristics, measures and qualities of this development. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 16/01133-2 - Analysis of economic impacts of the sugarcane industry territorialization and its consequences for social development in the micro-region of São José do Rio Preto (São Paulo, Brazil): the case of the municipalities of Jose Bonifácio, Planalto and Ubarana
• Grantee: Lucas Pauli
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master