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Geraizeiros
Also known as: geraizeiro, geraizeira, povo geraizeiro, Cerrado traditional community
A traditional non-Indigenous community of the Cerrado highlands — the gerais — of northern Minas Gerais and western Bahia. Geraizeiros practise a layered land use of upland common-grazing and native-fruit gathering with valley-bottom cultivation, recognised in Brazilian law as a traditional people. Their decades-long resistance to eucalyptus-monoculture and soy enclosure of the gerais commons is one of the defining Cerrado land-rights struggles.
Geraizeiros are a traditional community of the [[cerrado|Cerrado]] highlands — the gerais, the high open tablelands of northern Minas Gerais and western Bahia from which they take their name.
Who they are
The geraizeiro land system is vertical. The high flat gerais are held and used in common — extensive cattle grazing and the gathering of [[pequi|pequi]], [[baru|baru]], panã and other native fruits — while families farm the moister valley slopes and bottoms individually. It is a single integrated economy that depends on the upland commons staying open and unfenced.
That is exactly what large-scale eucalyptus plantation and soy expansion enclosed. From the late 20th century the gerais commons were fenced and planted over, cutting communities off from their gathering grounds and water. The geraizeiro response — organising, mapping their own territory, winning recognition as a traditional people with land rights — is one of the Cerrado’s defining commons-defence movements, and the reason the [[extractivism|native-fruit cooperative economy]] has a political as well as an ecological meaning here.
Why this entry
Naming the geraizeiro keeps the Cerrado’s traditional custodians from collapsing into “smallholders.” They are the savanna’s [[ribeirinho|ribeirinho]]-analogue — a people defined by a standing-vegetation commons — and they stand with the [[kraho|Krahô]], [[xavante|Xavante]] and [[quilombola|quilombola]] communities as the biome’s land-defending kin.
See also
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- Shares approach with: [[quilombola]]
- Member of: [[lineage]]
- Contained by: [[cerrado]]
- Practices: [[extractivism]]
- Stewards: [[campo-limpo]]
- Operates: [[central-do-cerrado]]
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Practical
operated by
- Central do Cerrado member base includes geraizeiro, quilombola and Indigenous community enterprises
Cultural
stewarded by
- Cerrado geraizeiro, quilombola and Indigenous nations are the biome's traditional custodians
shares approach with
- Karajá a Cerrado traditional-community neighbour with an overlapping standing-vegetation economy and land-tenure struggle
- Krahô a Cerrado traditional-community neighbour with an overlapping standing-vegetation economy and land-tenure struggle
- Tapuia a Cerrado traditional-community neighbour with an overlapping standing-vegetation economy and land-tenure struggle
- Xavante a Cerrado traditional-community neighbour with an overlapping standing-vegetation economy and land-tenure struggle
- Xerente a Cerrado traditional-community neighbour with an overlapping standing-vegetation economy and land-tenure struggle
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