EXPANSION OF AGRICULTURAL FRONTIER AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN LAND USE AND LAND COVER IN SURROUNDING AREAS TO INDIGENOUS LANDS IN SOUTHEASTERN MATO-GROSSENSE

Abstract

The occupation of the Southeast of Mato Grosso is marked by the arrival of the expansion front that advanced on indigenous territories around the 1930s, composed mainly of peasants and miners. In the following decades, the pioneering front arrived, building infrastructures and establishing properly capitalist relations of production, with the transformation of land into merchandise, production determined by the logic of the market, wage labor, the expropriation of peasants and the intensification of occupation. of the territory of indigenous peoples, who were in the process of “creating” indigenous lands (TIs), which made up a small part of their traditional territories. The objective of this research was to analyze, through a bibliographical review and the use of geotechnologies, how the historical process of occupation of traditional indigenous territories in the Southeast of Mato Grosso occurred and how these processes transformed the use and cover of the land in areas surrounding the indigenous lands between 1998 and 2018. The mapping of land use and land cover was done using images from the Landsat 8/OLI and Landsat 5/TM satellites. The analysis showed that these areas have little vegetation covers and great fragmentation of forest remnants, leaving indigenous lands isolated and surrounded by agricultural activity.