Caminhos das águas: a produção dos brejos e das culturas

Abstract

In gerais, in the left bank of the Middle São Francisco River, in the Semi-arid region of Minas Gerais, water sources have historically defined territories and food sovereignty for the rural population. From the plateaus to the springs, the generalist populations have created agricultural domains and dwellings mediated by access to water. In this region, forms of insurgencies locally designated as "brejos" have played a fundamental role in providing for families, creating ways of life, and food production systems. However, agricultural modernization policies implemented in the region since the 1970s, along with climate change scenarios, have exacerbated socio-environmental issues related to the death and drying up of springs. This work aims to analyze how traditional knowledge systems interpreted the "brejos" and developed productive systems, and the effects of social and climate changes on traditional populations that built their ways of life around these wetlands.