Investor Presentaiton
The delimitation of MATOPIBA, proposed jointly by the INCRA and the Embrapa Strategic
Territorial Intelligence Group, is located within the area of 4 Brazilian states: Maranhão,
Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia and is compound of 31 microregions (337 municipalities) summing
73 million hectares.
Map 2. Proposed territorial delimitation of Matopiba and IBGE micro geographic regions
50°W
Legenda
MATOPIBA: Limite Proposto
Microrregiões do MATOPIBA
Limites Estaduais (Siglas)
MA
TO
PI
BA
45°W
1:8.000.000
0
65 130
260
390
520
40°W
A
10'S
15'S
Source: Miranda et al (2014a).
Most of the Matopiba region was occupied with soya bean plantations in very large scale,
with much land grabbing, made possible by the development of types of soya technologically
adapted to the region during the 90s years of last century.
The region in focus is the southwest region of the state of Piauí, as can be seen in map 1,
where until around 2000 most land was under subsistence agriculture, with very low commercial
agriculture. The commercial soya bean plantation entered this area of Piaui very recently asView entire presentation