摘要：This article focuses on the environmental history contribution from the analysis of the secular Brazilian agrarian cycles, drawing parallels between the great exporting monoculture large landed rural properties and the small food-producing units, and the consequent impact generated by the two models in both space and time along the Brazilian civilizing process. It consists of na ecological and humane questioning aimed to broaden the agro- -ecological reflection, having the geographical space as its locus. Through the dialectic method, this article reflects on the essence of the economic, sócio environmental and ethical-cultural facts and conflicts in the Brazilian agrarian history, analyzing the political links that articulated the distinguishing cumulative capital between agrarian cycles, as well as (dis)organization reasons of the food production systems.
