O presente número da revista retrata um momento triste para Retratos de Assentamentos, porque uma das pioneiras e editoras em toda sua história fez sua passagem este ano, a sempre querida professora Dulce Consuelo Andreatta Whitaker. Coragem e pioneirismo são duas características que marcaram a trajetória de Dulce. Ainda nos anos de chumbo do regime militar, a jovem professora da Rede Pública do Oeste Paulista desafiava os censores (e os delatores) de plantão, trazendo temas “polêmicos”...

A intenção deste artigo é demonstrar possibilidades da abordagem baseada na análise dialética quando tentamos explicar o real a partir de teorias formuladas em outros contextos – no caso aqui, a Teoria da Reprodução.   Para tanto, estamos confrontando a elaboradíssima Teoria de Bourdieu e Passeron (1975) com os dados de uma entrevista bastante expressiva que nos foi concedida por uma jovem criada na zona rural – um assentamento de Reforma Agrária – jovem esta que alcançou altos níveis de...

The main objective of this thesis is to understand how the experience of rural aging is constructed and to identify the resistance strategies and spatiality developed by the elderly in the context of struggle, conquest and formation of the Gercina Mendes camp and the Água Sumida settlement. It also discusses how aging is seen in geography and its relationship with the spatial and social dimensions of subjects. Starting from a theoretical framework for the geography of aging, we propose...

The maintenance of the rural succession process in family farming is a preponderant fact to sustain the future of follow-up. The fact that rural youth is increasingly leaving the countryside may imply a profound disruption of the generational process of family farming. Therefore, this work seeks to analyze among young people the existence of signs that in the future there will be successors in family farming in the Middle Jequitinhonha region in Minas Gerais. To achieve the objectives, a...

This article has as its theme the reflection on environmental education (EE) and territorial development, based on landless children childhood experiences in the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST). The choice of the theme is justified by the investigation of the children way of life, children who are subjected to a process of struggle for agrarian reform for better living conditions , for preservation of the environment, healthy food and schools. The objective of this work is to identify...

This essay discusses the National Program of Education in Agrarian Reform (PRONERA) using the process of formation of this policy as an achievement of Rural Education. The objective is to report historically how PRONERA and Rural Education have contributed to the training of rural students and educators with environmental sustainability practices. We make, at first, a cut of this process of construction of education in rural areas, focusing on the struggle and resistance of the working class...

A história do Presidente Venceslau/SP tem semelhança com a das demais cidades do Oeste Paulista, marcada pela expansão ferroviária e da cultura do café. Ali, Álvaro Antunes Coelho encarnou a figura do colonizador/grileiro que tratou de lotear a área onde se localiza o município atualmente, de modo que, este estudo do patrimônio rural e da área envoltória, hoje no coração da cidade, é revelador quanto aos agentes que escrevem a história e das vozes que se sobressaem nas disputas de...

The aim of the production of the article is to analyze aspects of the Pastoral Land Commission and the Landless Workers' Movements, identifying the main points of claim, with the objective of apprehending what were the needs and criticisms made.  Having as problematic in the development of the textual production: what are the pretensions that were part of the demands of both movements by/from the country, during the 1987/88 Constituent Assembly? Together, identify the reflections of the...

This article seeks to analyze the social issue of hunger as an essentially political phenomenon,. As a political phenomenon, we focus our analysis on the geopolitical factor of hunger determinations in two moments. The first, in the 1970s, when successive oil shocks occurred, the increase in the international price of food and these as a geopolitical weapon of world imperialism. Secondly, we analyze imperialism's struggle for control of oil in the Middle East, the increase in its price on...

The Batataense Association of Family Farming Producers (ABAFA), based in the Nossa Terra Settlement, in the municipality of Batatais / SP, was selected to develop a document (Business Plan), to justify the installation, of an agroindustry for minimally processed products. the production of its associates. Inaugurated on December 8, 2016, it has been inoperative since its inauguration. The objective of this work was to evaluate an experience with the supposition of the presence of an...

In this work we test the hypothesis that the ethnopedological knowledge of the rural settlement Florestan Fernandes presents a potential for pedoenviromental stratification for its use and management. For that, the present study aimed to evaluate such knowledge and its form of perception in the environment, quantifying them by the multivariate analysis using soil attributes, relief and type of use of the Florestam Fernandes. The settlers divided five ethnopedological classes: Aréola, Terra...

When talking about Mato Grosso, in the popular imagination, it is the “land of agri” business. Given this scenario, in MT agroecology has become increasingly necessary. Thus, the objective is to understand the historical process of the organization and construction of agroecology, as well as the historical formation of this process in Mato Grosso. This study was carried out through bibliographical research. The first historical record of agroecology in MT took place in 1987, in Cuiabá, where...