In this article the social trajectory of a land occupation participant, an encamped woman (Edesmaria) who is a member of an extended landless family, is closely examined in order to demonstrate the inner workings of what ...

In this paper we analyze some elements of the current situation of the struggle for land in Brazil from the data published in the report DATALUTA 2014. The analysis was conducted before the balance of the field demonstrations, ...

This paper analyses one of the challenges facing agrarian geographers of Brazil: explaining land-tenure systems in light of persistently high levels of land occupations by landless peasants, the implementation of agrarian ...

Illegal occupation, linked to processes of land speculation, generates various social and environmental tensions. These conflicts are reinforced by the weakness of institutions and by the conflict of interests between ...

Without effective actions to improve environmental management, water resources tend to become scarce. Thus, this study aimed to understand the processes influencing the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the ...

The Brazilian Forestry Code established the Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs) to preserve environmentally significant areas, such as the banks of waterways. Grande River is an important Brazilian river whose watercourse ...

The objective of this study was to analyze the effects of sugarcane expansion in Sao Paulo, from 1975 to 2006, on the agrarian structure for the state, regarding the usage and concentration of land, technology together ...