The "progressist farmer"

science and nature protection in A Lavoura [The Farming] (1909-1930)

Authors

  • Vanessa Pereira da Silva e Mello Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz
  • Dominichi Miranda de Sá Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36661/2238-9717.2016n27.8040

Keywords:

Ministry of Agriculture, Forest Code, agricultural modernization, science, conservationism

Abstract

The article examines the promotion and application of scientific principles at the countryside and the nature conservation in Brazil promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce (MAIC) between 1909 and 1930. With this official propaganda, the Ministry intended to expand awareness about the importance of agricultural modernization and product diversification. To impact the communication with the farmers of the country, the MAIC in collaboration with the National Agriculture Society (SNA) distributed magazines such as A Lavoura [The Farming], the specific case of study in this text. The article analyzes how the magazine's writers, especially scientists subordinated to the MAIC, understood the natural world, the social type that they addressed their biggest criticisms - the so-called Brazilian Caboclo - and the measures proposed to manage the destruction of nature, especially a Federal Forest Code

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Author Biographies

  • Vanessa Pereira da Silva e Mello, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz

    Doutoranda pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em História das Ciências e da Saúde da Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz

  • Dominichi Miranda de Sá, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz

    Doutora em História, pesquisadora e professora do Programa de Pós-graduação em História das Ciências e da Saúde da Casa de Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz.

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Published

05-06-2018

Issue

No. 27 (2016): Dossiê História das Ciências e Tecnologias

Section

Dossiês

How to Cite

SILVA E MELLO, Vanessa Pereira da; MIRANDA DE SÁ, Dominichi. The "progressist farmer": science and nature protection in A Lavoura [The Farming] (1909-1930). Fronteiras: Revista Catarinense de História, Brasil, n. 27, p. 27, 2018. DOI: 10.36661/2238-9717.2016n27.8040. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uffs.edu.br/index.php/FRCH/article/view/8040. Acesso em: 6 dec. 2025.