Challenges Peasant Production Faced with Environmental Preservation Policy: A Case Study of the Lencois Maranhenses National Park - Brazil

Francisco De Oliveira Viana; Ademir Terra

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Challenges Peasant Production Faced with Environmental Preservation Policy: A Case Study of the Lencois Maranhenses National Park - Brazil

Francisco De Oliveira Viana, Ademir Terra

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The challenges of peasant production in the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (PNLM) had their genesis with the effective creation of the park and later its classification as an integral protection unit, which does not allow the use of natural resources. In turn, the managing body imposes several restrictions on traditional communities that reside in the domains of this region, even though they were inhabited there even before its creation. Such restrictions impose limitations to the maintenance of the way of life of these communities, such as subsistence agriculture, as in the case of the Tucuns community, which is a spatial cut-out of the present work. This research aimed to analyze the challenges of peasant production facing the restrictions of the environmental preservation policy, where we are mainly based on the method of historical materialism and on the analysis of participant observation, which supported the analyzes proposed in this paper. During field activities, technical and exploratory visits were carried out to the Tucuns community and to the office of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, where dialectically we sought to gather information from both sides. In the end, it was identified that the peasant production in the region has been facing several challenges, facing the environmental preservation policy, which in most cases, does not recognize the right of these traditional populations in relation to territoriality. The research focused on giving time and voice to the peasants, socio-spatial peoples (the peasants), who live with upheavals due to the constant imminence of deterritorialization.

Published in	Frontiers (Volume 1, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.frontiers.20210104.14
Page(s)	72-78
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Challenges, Peasantship, Conservation Unit, Tucuns, Lençóis Maranhenses

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Francisco De Oliveira Viana

Department of History and Geography (DHG), Geography Course, State University of Maranh?o (UEMA), S?o Luís, Brazil
Ademir Terra

Department of History and Geography (DHG), Geography Course, State University of Maranh?o (UEMA), S?o Luís, Brazil

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