Produtores rurais e parque nacional: um estudo de caso na Serra da Canastra - MG

Abstract

This work was carried out with the objective of understanding why the farmers who live nearby the National Park interfere in the Park eco-system what could be considered as hostile. The Serra da Canastra National Park was settled in 1972 in order to preserve the São Francisco river-head - The National Integration River. Neither physical nor sócio-economical lay-outs were made in the area in order to delimit the lands belonging to that Park what would enable the foreseeing of the Park setting effects upon the traditional grazing system adopted by the peasants who live nearby. The lack of ability to- conduct both land dispossession and land evacuation was found to cause useless conflicts between governmental organs and the local population. Ali these factors have shown to be significant to the farmers as well as to cause human interferences which might be considered as hostile and, as a consequence, to make it impossible for the eco-system to be efectively protected by the PNSC. In this analysis the data which the farmers consider to be significant such as change in the traditional grazing system; amount to be pard and form of payment for land recomping; conflicts caused by the area dispossession; expectations emerging from the PNSC'S settling were found to be relevant. The farmer's view of the enviroment protection, was found out through the interpretative analysis on the ground of theoretical and methodological reference. Such an analysis made it possible to reconstitute reality by starting from the actor's conscience what would show that farmers did not realize that their interferences were hostile.