Análise da pecuária extensiva como possível vetor de intensificação dos processos erosivos na fazenda depósito Xanadu, Terra Indígena São Marcos, Roraima

Abstract

The present work deals with the analysis of the environmental impacts promoted by the practice of the livestock activity in an extensive production system, focusing on the soil compaction and erosive processes consequent to cattle trampling during grazing at the Xanadu Depot Farm, São Marcos Indigenous Land (TISM). To know the origins of bovine production in the State of Roraima and TISM communities, to identify the cultural characteristics of indigenous livestock such as caiçara and capineira, and the organizational aspects of the society and politics of the Macuxi, Wapixana and Taurepang indigenous peoples (MWT) The São Marcos Indigenous Land, in the municipalities of Boa Vista and Pacaraima, in the State of Roraima. In a territory of 654,110 hectares, it is sought to equate the development of productive activities with environmental and cultural sustainability. The MWT has a history of management with livestock, created in a family and community system, fruit of their contacts with the settlers. One of the strategies of the MWT is to use one of the dozens of compensated farms (Fazenda Xanadu), whose mission is to develop pasture and livestock management techniques that help boost their agricultural activities through a dialogue of knowledges with indigenous technologies. The challenge of the project is to make the Xanadu farm a sustainable initiative, building knowledge that can be replicated for the 43 indigenous communities that live within the indigenous land of San Marcos.