O custo da carne: a expansão da pecuária bovina no cerrado brasileiro e as violações aos direitos da sociobiodiversidade

Abstract

This article starts from the research question: How do the repercussions of extensive cattle ranching in the Cerrado violate socio-biodiversity rights? Thus, the general objective is

to analyze how the expansion of cattle ranching in this biome infringes the rights of socio- biodiversity. The specific objectives are to identify the relationship between data on the

degradation of Cerrado vegetation and livestock; analyze the violations of socio-biodiversity rights resulting from this activity and reflect on the ways in which socio-biodiversity rights are realized from the experience of local people. For this discussion, the bibliographic review and documentary analysis was adopted as a methodology, in order to verify the current development of cattle raising in the concrete scenario. The results show that the accelerated and predatory growth of livestock has contributed to the deterritorialization of traditional communities and loss of ancestral knowledge, directly reflecting on the conservation of the Cerrado's biodiversity. As a result, popular movements rise as mechanisms of resistance to the appropriation of environmental resources in the biome.