Land cover and coffee culture: transformations in Minas Gerais’ Zona da Mata region (1920-1950): Land cover and coffee culture: transformations in Minas Gerais’ Zona da Mata region (1920-1950)
The present work aims to analyze the coffee growing in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais between the years 1920 and 1950. To this end, census sources used composed of the demographic and agricultural sections of the General Censuses of the years 1920, 1940 and 1950. The sources were based on the agra...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros (UNIMONTES) |
| Repositorio: | Caminhos da História (Montes Claros. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs2.periodicos.unimontes.br:article/8833 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://www.periodicos.unimontes.br/index.php/caminhosdahistoria/article/view/8833 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Zona da Mata cafeicultura fronteira sistema agrário cobertura do solo coffee culture frontier agrarian system land cover cultivo de cafe frontera sistema agrario cobertura del suelo |
| Resumo: | The present work aims to analyze the coffee growing in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais between the years 1920 and 1950. To this end, census sources used composed of the demographic and agricultural sections of the General Censuses of the years 1920, 1940 and 1950. The sources were based on the agrarian systems approach, emphasizing the spatiotemporal nature of the coffee activity practiced in the center-south of Brazil in the period in question. In this way, it was adopted a regional subdivision compatible with the phenomenon investigated, associating the demographic profile and characteristics of land cover in each of the municipalities researched. After manipulating the data, the movement of the coffee frontier was verified in its south-north direction. However, this phenomenon represented an evident decline in activity in the region as a whole, although the Northern portion represented different levels from other producing areas. The population increase seen in these portions of the territory also accompanied the transition to other economic activities linked to the rural universe, such as the incorporation of livestock and other diversification activities in the mid-century context. |
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