esta edição da Retratos de Assentamentos, apresentamos uma seleção de artigos que abordam os desafios e as potencialidades da agricultura familiar, dos assentamentos de reforma agrária e dos movimentos sociais em busca de justiça socioambiental no Brasil. Todas essas questões se entrelaçam com os desafios contemporâneos identificados pelo relatório “Panorama da Infodemia Socioambiental”, elaborado pelo NetLab/UFRJ. O relatório analisa como a desinformação tem sido usada para manipular o...

This work is part of a postdoctoral research in which the strategies of rural social movements for the commercialization of their production were discussed in the context of primarization of their economies. The objective of this particular article is to analyze the primary specialized export option and how it relates to the Food and Nutritional Insecurity indices. The analysis starts from Brazil but is also supported by two other countries in the Latin American Southern Cone, Paraguay and...

This article analyzes the agrarian reform policy in the scenario of fiscal adjustment, deepened in recent governments, especially after the 2016 coup. The present time is marked by the advance of the agro-hydro-ore business on natural resources, penalizing land and the people of the waters, the land, the forests. It is noted that the fiscal adjustment implemented by federal governments drastically reduced resources for social policies, with emphasis on agrarian reform policy

Given the typical uncertainties in the sector, credit for agriculture is more expensive when compared to other sectors of the economy, which justifies the existence of public policies with subsidized credit, such as the National Family Farming Program (PRONAF). This research was born from an Extension Project at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), whose purpose was to offer a financial education course for the group of family farmers. The research was carried out in two...

The aim of this article is to analyze the Brazilian agrarian situation, based on the process of accelerating the release and consumption of pesticides, as part of what can be called the permanent reiteration of the predatory agribusiness model. We aim to examine, although briefly, the process of this model's emergence in the country. We address political and economic aspects of the recent Brazilian agrarian situation, with a focus on the current current government, run by the Workers' Party...

The article in question analyzes the impacts of the dam collapse in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, not only on the physical destruction, but also on the socioeconomic structure of the city and its rural area. The focus is on the life and work of farmers from the Pastorinhas settlement, seeking to understand how the production and quality of products were affected and what the settlers' expectations are for their own future. Five farmers were interviewed to describe the difficulties faced...

  Abstract: In this work, we investigate the interconnection between socio-territorial movements and food sovereignty, focusing our study on the Emiliano Zapata settlement, located in the municipality of Ponta Grossa, PR, and linked to the Landless Workers' Movement (MST). We explore how the MST, through the practice of agroecology, contributes to food sovereignty in its pursuit of agrarian reform and improved living conditions in rural areas. The MST adopts agroecology as a form of...

The work in question analyzed the life trajectory of a family of settled farmers in southern Brazil, seeking to understand the relationship between the struggle for land, agrarian reform and the production of a dignified life in the countryside. The research was carried out in the Filhos de Sepé Settlement, in the municipality of Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul (RS) and used the qualitative “life history” methodology, which sought to listen to the voices and knowledge of those who have...

The public policy of granting land titles is essential to understand the settlements, as its inadequate application can act in the transformation of redistributed lots into private properties. This work aims to analyze the process of formation, development and challenges faced by family farmers of the Douradinho and Engenho da Serra settlements, located in Ituiutaba/MG. This is qualitative research in which the data set was collected through visits to public institutions in the city and two...

The aim of the research was to conduct a socioeconomic diagnosis of the PDS Milton Santos, in the metropolitan area of Campinas/SP, and to identify the key features of the agroforestry systems implemented in the settlement. This settlement has 70 plots of 1 hectare each, with about 170 residents. A significant portion of the settlement’s workforce, men and women between 20 and 49 years old, does not live in the community because they have left looking for jobs in nearby urban centers. About...

The text comes from a research Project developed within the scope of the Federal University of Goiás between 2015 and 2018. Presents and discusses cases of “alternative agriculture”, with na emphasis on organic production or agriculture, around the capital Goiânia based on na organic producers fair. The Reading of these experiences supports the construction of theoretical arguments about the protagonism of a new social subject enhanced by subjective elements that are structured based on...

Free fairs are a traditional and consolidated form of marketing, constituting an important short supply chain for family farmers. The objective of this work is to analyze commercialization and identify aspects of production diversity and the socioeconomic profile of farmers who sell at the Feira Livre de Ilha Solteira-SP, which takes place weekly on Sundays. Data collection was carried out through the application of a questionnaire that collected data on the socioeconomic profile of the...

The article aims to analyze the potential of work tools for the improvement of rural extension services aimed at agrarian reform settlements. Regarding the method, the research qualifies as being: qualitative, descriptive, with documentary support and field research. The work is the result of a partnership between the Federal University of Pampa - Campus Itaqui and the Federal University of Santa Maria. Through the research groups GIEDER from UNIPAMPA and NEP Terra from UFSM, field actions...

The article presents the main results of the doctoral research internship at the University of Lisbon, offering a comparative study of the socioterritorial technologies of agroecology identified in the field, highlighting the distintos and similarities between agroecological territories in Brazil and Portugal. To this end, the theory of socioterritorial movements became seminal, providing elements for investigating peasant territories, from the organization of agrarian reform settlement...

Scandals of serious and large leaks of personal data that occurred in the United States of America, the Cambridge Analytica and Edward Snowden cases, led the world to question the security, protection and privacy of personal data that travel in the virtual environment. These data leaks revealed the pressing need to protect and preserve personal data in the most diverse databases on the world wide web and beyond. The European Union took the lead and enacted the GDPR. Next came the CCPA from...