As influências dos modelos de produção agrícola na saúde dos/as trabalhadores/as do campo

Abstract

This present work aims to analyze the ways of agricultural production in dispute in the field, and their impacts on the health of the rural worker and the population in general. The process of productive restructuring has not only resized the degree of economic development, but has focused on the political, historical, social and cultural issues of peoples. When this process is presented as the advance of capital over the countryside, it also expresses the aggravation of the social question's expressions, translated into social and environmental conflicts, as well as in the forms of productive management and life of the population. This process was responsible for spreading the agriculture industrialization as a way of boosting the export market and, therefore, assumed the indiscriminate use of pesticides in the commodity productive process. Currently, Brazil carries the brand of the largest pesticides consumer of the world, with an average consumption of 7 liters per person a year, and is still experiencing the release of active ingredients in the national market; also expanding the numbers of acute poisonings and serious diseases caused by pesticides. This scenario led to resistance movements in the countryside, and with them new development strategies of the national rural area, which incorporate measures that go against the prevailing logic. One of these measures, even though little disseminated among the organized civil society, can be expressed in the practical and academic growth of the agroecology movement. The methodology of the work included survey and bibliographical analysis and documentary research on the subject. The monograph discusses the development of capitalism in Brazilian agriculture and the impacts of capitalist agriculture on worker health; It also develops the debate on the notions of agroecology and the successful experiences of this alternative model of agricultural production. Thus, it becomes possible to understand that the State, assuming the role of hegemonic relations reproducer, contributes to the maintenance of the current production model, even if it acts directly on the subjects' lives bringing them damages and, therefore, the struggles against hegemonic ones and the spreading of concepts such as agroecology are essential to achieve a sustainable way of life and full respect for life.