O final do inverno e o início da primavera de 2024 se apresentaram como uma espécie de cartão de visitas da emergência climática para amplas regiões interiores do país, em especial para o rico interior paulista. Os incêndios sucessivos e recorrentes que passaram a ocorrer em pastos, canaviais e áreas degradadas de propriedades rurais do Estado de São Paulo desde os finais de agosto, fizeram soar alarmes para setores da sociedade – sobretudo em São Paulo – que faziam ouvidos moucos aos...

The literature has shown that hunger in Brazil it’s estructural and multifactorial, related to poverty, rural exodus and the lack of acess to food. Some studies formed the basis for public food and nutricional security polices in the 2000s, which included agrarian reform as one of the guidelines for combating hunger. Based on conceits of food security and sovereignty, we interviewed ten farmer workers from the PDS Santa Helena to understand their representations about hunger and strategies...

In the classic The Brazilian Revolution, Caio Prado Júnior criticizes the theorists of his time for developing the basis of thought for agrarian reform in Brazil based on European models. European agrarian reform based on land ownership comes from the initiative of peasants, individuals whose social recognition is conditioned by their productive function and their belonging to the land and to a specific location. Differently, the Brazilian case starts from a slave system, in which...

In 2009, Law 11.947 was approved, providing greater institutionalization to the National School Feeding Program. The new legislation directed executing agents to enhance the nutritional value of school meals, prioritizing fresh or minimally processed products. Article 14 (A14) made it mandatory that at least 30% of the funds allocated for school meals be spent on products from family farming (FF), prioritizing farmers from the municipality or region. The aim was to verify how the...

The financialization and the power of large transnational corporations have significantly increased in recent decades, resulting in the growing control of the entire food system. This article focuses on a study conducted with peasant families from Quilombo Campo Grande, located in the state of Minas Gerais and organized by the Landless Workers' Movement (MST). The objective was to analyze the strategies adopted by these families regarding seeds and their relationship with food production and...

There are multiple and diverse debates on conceptualizing the youth category in Social Sciences (REGUILLO, 2007; MARGULIS, 2008; CHAVES, 2009; BALARDINI, 2000). Since the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 19th century, the category "youth" was defined in Central Europe (KUSTRÍN, 2007, youth was characterized by being present in the public agenda of all Western societies and our region has not been the exception. In general, when we think or talk about youth, it is directly...

  O presente artigo é um recorte da tese "A construção da autonomia das mulheres rurais diante dos dilemas nos assentamentos” que deu continuidade às pesquisas realizadas pela autora e aos projetos do NUPEDOR. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa nos assentamentos da região de Araraquara-SP, que teve como objetivo principal analisar como se dá a construção da autonomia das mulheres, identificando qual o lugar que a reprodução social ocupa na vida e no trabalho delas nos assentamentos e nas...

This work aims to portray an extension project, called “Agroecology and Environmental Sociology Workshops”, carried out in 2023. The project was built in conjunction between the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), bringing together a set of teaching practices, through the debate on environmental justice and climate change, to promote the development of a critical perception about the relationship between the rural and urban world. Among the...

This article discusses the legitimization strategies employed by families involved in the Marielle Vive camp located in Valinhos/SP. It specifically considers the role of community tourism as a strategy to increase visibility for the justifying arguments underlying the claims of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in the region. Thus, the study shifts the typical tourism research question from "what justifies tourism?" to "what does tourism allow to justify?". Two events of visitation...

This article is the result of the exchange of knowledge and specialization councils in Human Rights offered by the State University of Maranhão – UEMA. To this end, our general objective in this article is to present some fundamental elements of the conception of human dignity and its promotion from the critical perspective of human rights in dialogue with the concrete struggle experience of the Landless Rural Workers Movement – ​​MST. To do this, we use the critical theory of human rights...

Knowing the land status of the national territory is a basic element for developing public policies for economic, social and environmental development and the planning and management of the territory. Special Colonization Projects (PEC) present extensive land regularization liabilities, as is the case of PEC Serra do Ramalho (PECSR). Therefore, the present research aims to identify and characterize the situation of PECSR through the diagnosis of its current land status, in order to provide...

The central objective of this work is to analyze slave labor from three aspects: historical, conceptual and coping policies. Furthermore, the work uses a qualitative approach methodology and is based on bibliographic and documentary research. The first aspect seeks to articulate the understanding of the phenomenon with the process of formation and exploitation of the workforce in the field, based on its historicity. The second aspect proposes a reflection on the conceptual limits given to...

This article aims to investigate the struggle for land of the families camped in Quilombo Campo Grande, located in Campo do Meio, Minas Gerais, in order to shed light on the challenges and barriers these families faced while fighting for land and agrarian reform in Brazil. We start from the assumption that the case study in question illustrates and represents concretely the difficulties and obstacles inherent in the implementation of agrarian reform policies in the country. To achieve the...

Rural expropriations for agrarian reform have been occurring for decades, since CF/88, however, with several questions regarding outdated regulations, as well as procedural procedures. The objective is to demonstrate the implications of outdated regulations along with the financial consequences caused. In addition to showing that the Treasury loses from irregular compensation, resulting from outdated regulations and a judiciary that is disconnected from INCRA's assessments. The methodology...

This article aims to highlight the contribution of a foreign researcher to understanding the Agrarian Reform process in Brazil and its results. This contribution is not unprecedented and is similar to the technical assistance offered to Italian settlers who immigrated to Brazil by agronomist-research engineers linked to the Istituto Agronomico Oltremare (IAO), which occurred in the first decades of the 20th century. The recent contribution consisted of the preparation and defense of a degree...