O uso crescente de agrotóxicos no Semiárido de Alagoas: a monopolização do território pelo capital e seus impactos socioambientais

Abstract

The present study deals with the process of the growth of the use of pesticides in the Semiarid region of Alagoas state and the monopolization of the territory of the capital. In this sense, the project had the objective of analyzing the contradictions of the spatial distribution of pesticides in the Semiarid region of Alagoas, in the period between 2008 and 2017. For this purpose, the method of the materialist-historical dialectic has been used as the conductor in the stress analysis that enabled us to investigate the contradictions that are present in the process during the period of the Green Revolution up to the present day. The category of analysis for Geography this the Territory, discussing, or more precisely the concept of the monopolization of the territory, with the assumption that the monopolization of the territory’s capital, results in the poisoning by pesticides from the agricultural sector. The completion of this work has made use of the research performed in the context of the Institutional Scholarship Program for Scientific Initiation (PIBIC/UFAL), by means of a survey of primary and secondary data. In the end, you are presented with data that quantifies the social and environmental impacts arising out of the use of agro-chemicals.