THE CYCLICITY OF NATURE AND TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURES IN THE FACE OF SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION PROMOTED BY THE EXPANSION OF AGRIBUSINESS IN THE SANTARENO PLATEAU

Abstract

This study analyzes the impacts of agribusiness territorial expansion on the ecological cyclicity and the continuity of traditional agricultures in the Santareno Plateau, western Pará, from 1994 to 2025. A qualitative methodology with an analytical-critical approach was adopted, based on bibliographic and documentary research grounded in ecosystem ecology, Amazonian agrobiodiversity management, and the concept of agrarian extractivism. The results indicate that the linear and intensive logic of the soy-corn succession disrupts the biogeochemical flows of organic matter recirculation, prevents the vital times of fallow, and promotes the severe decline of native pollinators due to deforestation and pesticide dispersal. The advance of the agricultural frontier relies on asymmetric territorial pressures, such as enclosure via the Rural Environmental Registry and land grabbing, culminating in a chemical warfare that compromises food sovereignty and human health, with an increase in neurological disorders. It is concluded that the financial time of agroindustrial capital is incompatible with the secular periods required for the forest's structural regeneration, highlighting the urgency of making the agents responsible for the liabilities and the legal safeguarding of traditional territories.