A disputa pela terra e a dinâmica do trabalho na Comunidade Boa Esperança, Santarém-PA

Abstract

The Boa Esperança community located in the plateau area of the municipality of Santarém, state of Pará, km 43 of highway PA-370 (Santarém Curuá-Una), is the empirical area here research. Founded in 1961 it is recognized in the local context by the production of white, yellow and tapioca flour. This is the main income and livelihood generating product for peasant families. In a not-so-distant past the production of flour was carried out exclusively with cassava raw material and the producers had the land to plant and harvest. From the 2000s with the expansion of grain cultivation, the land became the object of dispute, modifying the forms of peasant production and reproduction. This investigation was asked: What processes are taking place in the relationship of peasants with land? Are the land of families being bought or leased for grain production? How does the reproduction of peasant families occur? The Obejetivo was to understand how the dispute for land is taking place in the empirical area studied between the peasant subjects and agents related to grain cultivation.The research follows a qualitative approach through investigative procedures with literature review and field work. Research indicates that capital agents are appropriating the land through buying and lease relationships. It also highlights the changes and permanences that occurred in the relationship between flour production and the process of land loss by some families, as well as the land ownership movement by these subjects in more distant areas.