Segurança alimentar e relações capitalistas no campo e na cidade: o exemplo de Nepomuceno-MG

Abstract

On the national scene, there was an intense process of rural exodus, caused due to processes such as agricultural mechanization and land speculation, which had an impact on Brazilian food diets. Food is very important to the health of individuals, guaranteeing their supply of nutrients essential for the optimal functioning of their bodies. Thus, this work aims to analyze and compare the power of a newly migrated population group to the city with a number of rural inhabitants who do not have any link with agroecological procedures or social movements. For this purpose, the study uses the analysis category of food security, because conceives it is thought that this has many aspects concerning the relationship between agriculture and diet and allows the investigation of aspects related to food and health of responders. The study site is the municipality of Nepomuceno, located in the middle South/Southwest region of Minas Gerais, which has its economy based on agriculture, mainly in coffee production. The research covers the municipal agriculture, especially the family agriculture, aiming to evaluate elements like the urban-industrial inputs used in agricultural production, forms of the land rent found in the field in Nepomuceno, among others.The land rent category will be used in this analysis because it enables the realization of relations and typically capitalist processes in the field. Working and leases arrangements present in the municipal context were also analyzed, as well as the repercussions of land and property speculation on local agricultural dynamics. For the investigation of food safety groups, applied the questionnaire of the Brazilian Food Insecurity Scale (EBIA) in forty farm properties and forty city homes of Nepomuceno. Furthermore, other aspects that influence food security of individuals, like alcoholism, obesity, use of pesticides, psychological problems, among others, were also evaluated. In this context, dialogue with the research individuals and a longer period of contact with them, were crucial to the conduct of this study. Thus, the study aims to show some of the influences of the agrarian question in the feed of men and women studied, reverberating consequently on their health.