Socio-environmental impacts and threats to the way of life of traditional grassland communities in Bahia

Abstract

The present article describes itself to analyze the socio-environmental impacts undertaken by several projects of modernization and expropriation of land in common use of traditional pasture communities in the state of Bahia. The pasture fund, so called by its occupants, has its useful life without using the soil, with no fences, for extensive animal husbandry and for fruit extraction, these in turn are consumed and marketed by these residents. These areas are located mainly in the caatinga biome, with their greatest concentration in the north and northeast regions of Bahia and, in general, facing several problems related to the guarantee of land tenure, dating back to the Land Law of 1850 and several subsequent legislation that do not compare or how to use the land. In addition to the absence of fences, we also practice environmental preservation, since we do not use deforestation or predatory hunting. Since the 1970s, these communities face a series of conflicts motivated mainly by the incursion of the grid into their lands, aiming at land concentration and the implementation of modernizing projects such as the construction of large dams, the implantation of parks and miners and miners, that suffer different damages in the daily lives of these communities.