Last year, Brazil registered 1,768 Earth conflict occurrences-and more than 95% are occurrences of violence against land occupation and possession, according to data from the Terra Pastoral Commission (CPT), released on Wednesday (23). The number is the largest in 10 years since the beginning of the historical series in 2015.
Most conflicts are violence against occupation and possession (1,680), and includes evictions and expulsions, threats of evictions and expulsions, destruction of houses, fields and belongings, gun, grabbing, invasions and other violence.
Records add up 904.532 People involved in land conflicts, according to the study.
Compared to 2015, the increase is over 93%. See the occurrences violence against the occupation and possession of land per year:
- 2024: 1,680
- 2023: 1,624
- 2022: 1,530
- 2021: 1,306
- 2020: 1,632
- 2019: 1,313
- 2018: 1,016
- 2017: 1,047
- 2016: 1,136
- 2015: 868
Maranhão leads in the conflicts for land (363), followed by Pará (234), Bahia (135), Rondônia (119) and Amazonas (117), according to the data. São Paulo occupies the 17th position among the states.
The data also show that there has been a decrease in violence in the expulsion, judicial eviction, threat of eviction, gun, grabbing, invasion and destruction of belongings.
On the other hand, there was an increase in expulsion threats (from 98 to 245150%increase), illegal deforestation (150 to 209growth of 39%), fire (91 to 194or 113% increase), and contamination by pesticides.
Farmers are almost half of agents that cause violence by land (44%), and are also mainly responsible for fire cases (47%) and illegal deforestation (38%), according to the survey. Gileiros, entrepreneurs and loggers complete the list of the biggest causes of conflicts and violence.
Indigenous peoples continue to lead with 29% of the records (481) Among those who suffer the most violence. Following are suffered squatters (425) and quilombolas (221).
This content was originally published in Brazil has a record of violence to vacate land, says a report on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil

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