CAPITAL TERRITORIALIZATION: Biotechnology, Biodiversity and their impacts on the Cerrado

Abstract

The expansion of capitalism in the Cerrado domain is intimately associated to the adoption of biotechnology. This process resulted in profound transformations in biodiversity and in traditional knowledge that are produced and transmitted by the local existing populations, from one generation to the next. As a result, there is the substitution, spatially distinctive, of biodiversity by agrobiodiversity, having deeper alterations in the territories taken over by agribusiness. This process leads to a loss in autonomy of the rural producers and a larger dependency by these relating to the multinational companies that detain the domain of the technologies of the seeds and inputs to them associated. The large scale advances in the commercial plantations of agribusiness and of subsistence agriculture performed by the countryside peasants constitute agrobiodiversities that simplify the ecosystems and result in the loss of popular knowledge.