Plan de Uso del Suelo en el Beni: Un análisis desde las Políticas Públicas

Abstract

The radical change in the agrarian politics of the
Department of Beni, Bolivia, consisted of the shift in
politics of the use of the soil stated by Supreme Decree
No 3973 of 2019. Such a document authorized the
clearance and controlled burn down of the forest for
transforming it in agricultural lands, with the objective
of achieving an accelerated economic growth by
incrementing the production scale to potential
industrial levels. For such purpose, it was designed a
Soil Usage Plan (PLUS) to diagnose and zone out the
lands according to its physical-chemical properties and
development vision. The PLUS is analyzed from the
perspective of political science using the category of
Public Policy, and its interpretation supported on other
social disciplines. The PLUS Beni shows an essentially
economicist profile, in favor of private enterprise and less amicable with the environment, the indigenous
people and farmers.