Conflito socioambiental frente à implantação de perímetro irrigado na Chapada do Apodi/RN na perspectiva dos atingidos

Abstract

The Chapada do Apodi/RN experiences called "arrival of progress" through the Irrigation Santa Cruz Apodi, generator socioenvironmental conflict. The research aimed to describe, from the perspective of those affected, the conflict resulting from the implementation of environmental irrigated the Apodi Plateau/RN. This is a qualitative research approaches with Health and Social Sciences; happened Apodi/RN with a group of 11 family farmers from Chapada (3 women and 8 men, mean age 36.5 years and schooling elementary school until college) and 2 members of the Union of Rural Workers of Apodi. There were three semi-structured interviews and meetings with three guiding tours from the ecology of knowledge. The speeches were analyzed from the following categories: the influences on the construction of conceptions of the subject on the conflict in Plateau RN; without DNOCS the past and the present with DNOCS; DNOCS the future that wants to chapadense territory, the future that farmers want for them. In building design on the conflict in Plateau RN highlights the Impacts of Agribusiness Seminar/Pesticides in Occupational Health and Environment and exchanges within the Baixo-Jaguaribe/CE and Baixo-Açu/RN. As the last of the territory, the origins vary: some old estates were sold to the Federal Government or other organs (such as the Union Force in the case of Palmares) for the program of Agrarian Reform (settlements), there are also communities, originated by fixing families in certain areas (as in Quixabeirinha). However, the maps of state documents on the Chapada/RN communities and settlements are invisible and marginalized depending on the need for enjoyment for perimeter which creates resistance difficult project through mobilizations and joints with other entities. For the future of Chapada/RN, DNOCS recommends deploying Perimeter concerned while farmers aim to continue their way of life receiving state incentives for its strengthening. We conclude that the territories and family farming need not and do not accept this model of agricultural modernization advocated in the Green Revolution. The model requires a state to bear with the structure in Chapada for companies to occupy, settle, produce, and profit from when find it impossible to continue in Apodi. However, implements policies that: not benefit the population; restrict access to water; generate pressures (emotional/psychological , from the fallacy of the benefits, political, social) in chapadenses; undermines the traditional agricultural production with environmental contamination by pesticides of agribusiness; generate jobs degrading health; expropriates people; invest over 200 million to strengthen agribusiness; cause an unequal struggle recognized by farmers. To add resistance to the perimeter, invite the Brazilian Network for Environmental Justice (RBJA) and we provide those affected with this document. We recognize the value of the territory and the research contributed to the dissemination and strengthening of the fight, when it proposes to hear the speeches and appreciate the demands of family farmers.