O agro não é pop: o crescente aumento do uso de agrotóxicos e as consequências para a sociedade brasileira

Abstract

When considering the fact that Brazil is the largest consumer of pesticides in the world, assuming that agriculture is not pop, this dissertation aims to analyze the growing increase in the use of pesticides and the consequences for Brazilian society. To this end, we initially sought to understand the impacts that capitalist transformations had on agriculture, which gradually resulted in the current hegemonic model. Secondly, the objective was to understand the relationship between the land issue in Brazil and the formation of the agribusiness monopoly. Finally, the research sought to understand how the agribusiness monopoly has been causing an increase in the use of pesticides in Brazil, with severe impacts on the health of the population. To meet the proposal, the methodological path of the research was based on Marxist theoretical concepts, through bibliographic review and documentary research. In this way, it was possible to conclude that through the dominance of capital in the field, competitiveness and profit have placed human health at high risk of contamination and poisoning, being one of the great challenges for society: providing means and paths in the search for solutions that take into account these contradictions of capitalism. In other words, it can be said that the residue of modernity in the countryside reflected in the health of the population is its condemnation to death.