Description
The history of the territorial occupation of Brazil and the advance in the agricultural frontier towards the legal Amazon, deserves a critical look at the strategies of expansion of agribusiness. Many problems arise with the insertion of capitalism in Brazilian agriculture, such as the environmental impacts caused by deforestation, chemical pollution by pesticides that impact the environment, the health of workers and the population residing in productive places, violence in the countryside due to land conflicts, and the use of contemporary slave labor composing this plot. Currently, in Brazil, the withdrawal of the state of Mato Grosso from the Legal Amazon (Law Project 337/2022) is being discussed, this being the state called "Brazil's barn", for being the largest producer of agricultural commodities (soybean, corn, cotton, cattle, swine and poultry). It is also the Brazilian state that uses pesticides the most and has one of the highest rates of rescue of workers in conditions of contemporary slavery in Brazil. In this scenario, it is intended to discuss the research carried out by the Nucleus for Environmental Studies and Worker's Health (NEAST), from the Health Public Institute, from the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), which for more than 20 years has been producing research on the impacts of agribusiness in human and environmental health, with emphasis on the issue of tax contamination by agrochemicals and their deleterious effects.| Period | 13 Apr 2023 |
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| Event title | International Labour Process Conference: Fair and decent work in a Global Economy? |
| Event type | Conference |
| Conference number | 41 |
| Location | Glasgow, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Agrifood; environmental; supply chain
- agrichemicals
- Labour