Agribusiness and pesticides: private enrichment, social impoverishment and collective illness
Agribusiness. pesticides. social conflicts
In this qualification report, we will deal with the fact that Brazil is the largest consumer of pesticides in the world, with great growth in recent years, with the objective of contributing to the increase in agribusiness productivity, also resulting from land concentration, monoculture, illegal deforestation , the appropriation of public lands associated with the use of high organic composition and the growing penetration of industry in the countryside. Within this we will investigate how the State carries out, on the one hand, the financing of agricultural credit for large producers, tax waivers such as the Kandir Law, debt forgiveness at the same time that it creates all the obstacles to family farming. In this investigation, we want to describe how this process ends up resulting in the private enrichment of those involved in the sector, in the social impoverishment derived from the agro-export model and how this sector does not contribute to state finances in the sense of ensuring social policies in the sense of opposing collective illness.