The depopulation in the Brazilian rural sphere: reflections on sustainability and the perspectives sociolegal of local social empowerment

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the depopulation in the Brazilian rural sphere, verifying the theoretical assumptions of sustainability and the perspectives of local social empowerment. Thus, the problem to be answered is as follows: what is the socio-environmental impacts and challenges faced in Brazil due to depopulation in the rural sphere? Thus, the specific objectives are a) to analyze the socio-environmental challenges faced in the Brazilian agricultural environment and the reflexes in rural depopulation; b) to study the socio-environmental impacts of predatory agriculture, verifying the need for a new profile of land occupation. For this, the monographic procedure and deductive approach methods are used, and the research technique is bibliographic. It is concluded the migration of the rural population to the cities brings negative impacts to both sides, since the large urban centers were not prepared to receive people from the rural area, as well as an increase in the neighborhoods of the peripheries. On the other hand, the impacts caused in rural areas from the decrease in people has caused problems in tax collection, scarcity of skilled labor and a drastic decrease in agricultural production.