“…Due to its location at the intersection between the Amazon River and the federal highway BR-163, the Santarém region has become, since the early 2000s, a strategic front for soybean monoculture expansion (SAUER, 2018). After the construction of a grain export port in 2003 by Cargill 7 , in less than 20 years, 80,000 hectares of monocultures (soy, corn, sorghum) were established, now representing 60% of the territory's non-forest areas (CORTES et al, 2020), as represented in figure 1. Violent conflicts arose, caused by land speculation and the progressive concentration of land, leading to the expropriation of traditional populations and family farmers who had been present in the territory for several generations, pressuring them to migrate from rural areas to urban centres (CÔRTES; D'ANTONA, 2016), even causing the extinction of entire communities (SAUER, 2018), see figure 2.…”