Agribusiness and pesticides: private enrichment, social impoverishment and collective illness
Agribusiness; Pesticides; Society.
When considering the fact that Brazil is the largest consumer of pesticides in the world,
based on the principle that agro is not pop, this dissertation aims to analyze the growing increase in the use of pesticides and the consequences for society
Brazilian. To this end, we sought to understand the meanings of the transformations capitalists in the countryside, which result in the current predominant agricultural model in the Brazil and dominant production in society, as well as providing a brief analysis on the land issue in Brazil and the agribusiness monopoly, which result in the debates and research in the area that have revealed a perverse system, which puts risk to the health of the population and contamination of the natural environment.