Revolução dentro da ordem agroexportadora: impactos de agrotóxicos no Mato Grosso do Sul (2024-2025)

Katiuscia Galhera

doi:10.1590/SciELOPreprints.17619

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Katiuscia Galhera Federal University of Grande Dourados https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5790-0913
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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.17619

Keywords:

pesticides, public health, quilombola communities, rural workers, urban population

Abstract

The aim of this article is to understand the correlation between monocrop production and impacts on human health. Specifically, it examines the particularities of agricultural production in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and its impacts on the general population, quilombola families, and rural workers in 2024 and 2025. The hypothesis tested is that the widespread use of pesticides, intrinsic to the agro-export monocrop model, is associated with a higher incidence of poisoning in municipalities across Mato Grosso do Sul among the populations analyzed. The materials and methods comprise indicators obtained primarily from records of exogenous poisoning and occupation provided by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, combined with other databases, including population data from IBGE, the distribution of quilombola communities provided by Agraer, municipal agricultural production data from SIDRA-IBGE, and formally employed rural workers registered in RAIS. The results demonstrate a distribution of pesticide poisoning associated with agricultural production across municipalities in Mato Grosso do Sul, as well as a concentration of occupational poisonings in areas near intensive monocrop production, despite the persistent underreporting of cases. This situation is the result of what Florestan Fernandes (1984, 2005) terms a “revolution within the established order,” that is, the Brazilian national bourgeoisies abandoned the project of transforming the country in a sovereign manner and allied themselves with international financial capital to pursue their modernization project while simultaneously reproducing internal structures of domination. This structure perpetuates historical mechanisms of inequality, in this case through the illness of populations and the increased burden placed on public health systems, concomitantly with the concentration of surpluses in the hands of a small segment of the population belonging to the agrarian bourgeoisie.