Artigo
Outcome of the agrarian reform in Brazil during the last two decades
Registro en:
Interciencia. Caracas: Interciencia, v. 38, n. 8, p. 563-569, 2013.
0378-1844
WOS:000327560600003
Autor
Souza Esquerdo, Vanilde F. de
Bergamasco, Sonia Maria Pessoa Pereira [UNESP]
Resumen
The agrarian reform allows for land redistribution and gives rural workers the opportunity to develop their life projects, rescuing the dignity of a historically excluded population. The conquest of the land carries significances that span from the rescue of citizenship to the improvement of living conditions due to the acquisition of goods, products and services. It is pointed out that in Brazil there still exists a marked concentration of large-landed estates. In this sense, this work had the objective of analyzing the Brazilian agrarian reform process during the last two decades. In this period the country had three Presidents, two of them elected with the support of the Rural Landless Workers Movement, increasing the expectations in relation to the fulfillment of the agrarian reform. The advances in the policies of rural settlements are notable; however, the structure of large-land estates remains unaltered. In the last two years (2011 and 2012) the number of settled families, as well as the number of settlements accomplished, were the worst since 2006. The priority of the current government is the eradication of extreme poverty and, in this sense, the agrarian reform becomes an essential policy to contribute to such goal, since with the distribution of the property of the land also diminishes the concentration of wealth. Univ Estadual Campinas UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil Univ Sao Paulo, BR-05508 Sao Paulo, Brazil Univ Fed Vicosa, Vicosa, MG, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil Agr Univ Wageningen, Wageningen, Netherlands Univ Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil