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This article analyzes the agricultural conflicts involving the traditional peasantry and thegreat capitalist activities in the State of Amapa, Brazilian Amazon. We seek to unveil, through the agricultural geography, and the advance of the frontier, the characteristics ofthe occupation, the genesis of the local peoples, the policies of land use and how they havebenefited certain groups towards the access to land and exploration of natural resources.Essentially, the conflicts are established by the expansion of the agriculture in public landsoccupied by peasants that are landholders, by the construction of dams for hydroelectricplants, affecting riverside populations for the deforestation and mineral exploration,harming indigenous peoples and others. The research is developed through a criticalanalysis via dialectical materialism with a theoretical and historical review of the place, ofthe dynamics of the frontier, execution of qualitative interviews and construction of qualiquantitative data. It is concluded that the existence of a local political project serves thegreat private interests, towards a society that claims for their rights to the territorry, whichis their livelihood.

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