Agrarian reform in Brazil: some considerations about the materialization of rural settlements

Abstract

This paper discusses in general terms some dilemmas that the process of settlement of landless families brings up, assuming certain analytical parameter theoretical and conceptual already consolidated in geography. Thus, the objective is to discussthe realization of the land struggle represented by the Settlement Project and scientific treatment of the topic has received. To accomplish the above discussion, it starts from the recognition that the state, especially in the last twenty years the federal government that followed, is not the only and main protagonist of the emergence of the Project for Agrarian Reform Settlements. Rather, civil society organizations in social movements in the field who is pressing the state for the implementation of land reform. During the different stages that characterizes the process of settlement, there is a series of problems arising from the transformation of landless families for family sitting, small rural producer. In the midst of this process the relationship between the State, settled families and social movements is presented in a confrontational, producing a number oflimitations to achieving the conquest of the land.