Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article analyzes the socio-environmental impacts of grain agribusiness on the Munduruku and Apiaká villages of the Santarém Plateau, Pará, over three decades of expansion of this activity in the region. Drawing on an exploratory qualitative approach, the study combines documentary analysis, historical series of secondary data, and semi-structured interviews conducted in 2023 with indigenous leaders from the Açaizal and Cavada villages. The results show that the territorial conflict cannot be reduced to a land dispute, constituting an expropriation process that operates simultaneously on the collective identity, territory, health, and food systems of these peoples, enabled by public financing of agribusiness, the construction of logistical infrastructure, and the omission of regulatory bodies. In response to this process, the communities articulate self-demarcation, political mobilization, and identity strengthening as forms of resistance to the advance of the corporate food regime over their territories.
Source: Terra Livre
Language: English
Subfield: Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7220710397