Effects of updating agriculture in Brazil

the advance of agriculture and pasture in biomes

Abstract

Social relations in the modern and globalized world have been of strong interaction with nature, causing negative impacts. Agriculture is an example, although essential to food production, it has been causing various types of degradation, mainly with agricultural modernization and the green revolution that has spread intensively in various parts of the planet. In this sense, the present work seeks to analyze the effects caused by agricultural modernization on the Brazilian environment, discussing Brazil's entry into the process of modernization of agriculture and the growth of agriculture, in addition to verifying the evolution of the area of ​​agriculture and pasture in the country. To do so, it is based on a review of the literature on agricultural modernization, as well as on the analysis of agricultural data from Brazil from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and land use data from the MapBiomas website. In this way, with the information researched, it was found that land uses, especially agriculture and livestock, have increased significantly in Brazil, affecting mainly the Cerrado and Amazon biomes, but also the Caatinga and Pantanal, in quantitative losses either of the vegetation cover. native vegetation, as well as by fires, which lead to environmental degradation.