Afirmações e contradições do agronegócio nos municípios de Lucas do Rio Verde, Nova Mutum e Sorriso - Região Norte do Estado de Mato Grosso.

Abstract

This thesis aims to explain and understand how Lucas do Rio Verde, Nova Mutum e Sorriso, cities located in the north of Mato Grosso, from their social relations, build their development processes based on agribusiness and how contradictions are manifested in this dynamic. Presenting social processes and territory used as key concepts, seeks through a socio-historical approach, to clarify de socio-political-economic mechanisms that allowed and still allow that realities like these build their quotidian referencing in the Agroindustrial Complex of soybeans. Therefore, from previous research that qualified these cities, based on conventional criteria, such as Human Development Index and Gross Domestic Product, developed for Brazilian standards, was sought to explain and understand the nature and consistency of development built in these places, using data from primary and secondary sources. To that end, a research was made to identify the socio-historical process which allowed the inclusion of Brazil in the capitalist mode of production and how the big property landholding, theoretically regarded as an impediment to capitalist development and whose classical model belongs to England, is not questioned by the political establishment, however, is strengthened. From this perspective it was possible to explain how the development projects in Brazil, articulated from the state power, had the land issue as a crucial point and how these projects contribute to explain and to understand the social differences that exist in Brazil and the historical possibility of existence of cities as surveyed here. In this context, the creation of the cities Lucas do Rio Verde, Nova Mutum and Sorriso, in the 1980s, inserted into the developmental project dictatorially articulated by the military governments, which had the agrarian modernization is one as structural point, summarizes and illustrates clearly how the Brazilian historical process that has the land question as a reference and the subordination to hegemonic capitalist centers as a condition, happens in a exclusionary way on the social point of view and unequal on territorial point of view. This thesis also attempts to support an explanation and understanding of the social process that allowed these three cities strengthen themselves economically with referencing in the agribusiness, despite 9 political changes in the command of the state until today. It also seeks to explain which contradictions this dynamic creates and how these contradictions contribute to a possible qualification of the nature of development that is built in the cities researched. Keywords: agribusiness, Agroindustrial Complex, development, social processes, used territory.