This paper examines some ethno-ecological traditional farming practices developed by peasant groups and focuses on a specific section of Bourdieu's concept of the habitus and on the perceptions of the triad of God, Man and Nature, as discussed by Klaas Woortmann. In the light of the principles and concepts such as the one described herein as "it is not safe to drink water that has been left out in the sun for an extended period of time", new practices have been adopted with the purpose of...

This study, which is part of the master's thesis, was conducted in a settled rural community in the region of Araraquara (SP). In this paper, we investigated the importance of intangible heritage with respect to the transformation of the rural settlement spaces into places, promoting the development of linkages between generations through cultural memory to learn about new ways of life, where women play crucial roles as guardians and promoters of cultural knowledge. The aim of this study was...

This paper aims to explore the relationship between people, culture and the environment in a rural settlement where people experience art making the connection between art and their daily lives, highlighting the reinvention of everyday life, notwithstanding the existence of contemporary artistic productions in metropolitan areas. The field research was conducted at a rural settlement (Barra do Leme) located in the town of Pentecoste-CE. Data were collected through interviews with the...

The history of Bela Vista do Chibarro Settlement encompasses the history of Tamoio Sugarcane Mill, the former landowner of this land, where the settlement is currently located. On the basis of this fundamental fact, the purpose of this paper is to trace the history of Tamoio Mill, including the social group constituted by workers and residents, and thus the early days of Bela Vista do Chibarro Settlement. The workers and residents' experiences explored in the survey are key factors used to...

This paper aims to present the teaching methods adopted by teachers in the settlement of Bela Vista do Chibarro in Araraquara/SP. We focus on the development of a pedagogical approach employed by the Escola do Campo "Prof. Hermínio Pagôtto" over two distinct time periods: the first period refers to the period when the sugarcane mill was the landowner of the farming lands and, the second period began with the establishment of the rural settlement. During the operational period of the mill,...

This article analyses the woman political organization in land reform settlement and afro descendent communities in São Paulo and the creation of the Omaquesp (Settled and Quilombola Woman Organization in São Paulo). It emphasizes the mobilization against the inequality in gender relations at family level and the claim for a gender focus for the rural development public polices. The research shows that there was a intense  and significant political participation of theses segments of rural...

This paper focuses on the Agrarian Question and examines the emergence of human rights from a historical perspective. Great emphasis is placed on the right to life guaranteed by the State Constitutions of the Countries of the World that contained an elaborate Bill of Rights, providing strategies of territorial integration through agrarian reform, allowing landless to reside on and use land as a means to restore their dignity which they were assigned at birth, according to the Universal...

This article aims to provide an understanding of the perceptions of agrarian issues, highlighting the agrarian pact, in a critical perspective, and seeks to establish that the agrarian question remains unresolved, and no comprehensive solution has been found to date - most people living in rural areas settings experience various forms of disadvantages such as the dissociation from the social patterns of accumulation, and they are deprived of their own rights; moreover, the paper highlights...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of agrarian policies, in particular those policies towards land reform aimed at reducing poverty and extreme rural poverty in Brazil; in this study, the latest census data was used to examine the characteristics of the rural population and the agrarian structure in Brazil, which allowed an assessment of different poverty lines; moreover, new paths to improve public policies aimed at reducing human misery in rural areas are...

This paper seeks to explore some key elements that are relevant to improve overall productivity including, particularly, the small agricultural enterprises in the so-called "region of Araraquara". Location and infrastructure, among other factors, are of paramount importance; however I endeavor to highlight those, which I consider are the most significant and refer to aspects of cognitive and immaterial labor in the sense that its products are intangible, such as knowledge, communication,...

The article makes an analysis on the performance of the Food Purchase Program (PAA) in the municipality of Presidente Venceslau (SP), the PAA is a public policy that is buying products from family farms and giving the people insecure food and social institutions (kindergartens, nursing homes, home of the minor, orphanages and schools). The analysis to suggest that the PAA has narrowed rural-urban relations, as the agricultural products produced in agrarian reform settlements materialize in...

This article aims to discuss a marketing arrangement that can contribute in some measure to improve the performance of the marketing of food from production in agrarian reform settlements. Assumed that the dislocation of production and marketing are a lethal mixture to the success of settlement, the article suggests as a goal of producing mapped out by the real market needs of those who produce the separation of who will take charge of selling the output. Keywords: Agrarian Reform,...

The purpose of this paper is to examine adaptation strategies that have been adopted by farmers of the 23 de Maio Settlement, located in Itapetininga (SP), in order to meet the goals and principles of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) discourse which promotes the implementation of agroecological practices in rural settlements. This study applied a conceptual model for participatory evaluation, namely the Evaluation System of the Adherence to Agroecology (SAAGRO), which was designed...

This article offers some reflections on the experience of implementing the Sustainable Development Projects in the State of São Paulo. These rural settlements were established as a result of the social movements and in response to the criticism of the Green Revolution, an agricultural model, and there has been an attempt to develop a policy to deal with the development of rural settlements and the environmental bias. The article examines the process and concludes by offering some...

This article examines the issues related to the need of updating the indices of agricultural productivity in Brazil and evaluates the ways in which supporters and opponents of this issue express their concerns. This study is based on articles and interviews published in newspapers in Sao Paulo, written by authors whose views were reflected in the pages of their products and the views of trade unions representing workers, or official entities, particularly those linked to the Ministry of...