Reforma agrária e assentamentos rurais no município de Francisco Sá-MG

Abstract

The colonial heritage in Brazil has led to land access inequality and latifundium formation. This structure contributed to the agrarian reform conflicts and social movements aimed to democratically propose the settlements organization with social autonomy, agriculture reproduction, and adequate living. The legal order for the agrarian reform politics was edited by the Earth Statute, law nº 4.504/64 and by the 1988 Federal Constitution. The rural settlements and its diverse modalities represented new territorial dynamics for the rural space in the north of Minas Gerais with the formation of different family units, presented both by the INCRA development of settlement projects with expropriation or land purchase and sale, and financing through the Earth banknote, Earth Bank, and National Land Credit programs. Therefore, the present study aimed to analyze different rural settlement programs in Francisco Sá, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The methodology was based on literature search to establish the theoretical part, fieldwork in the Sol Nascente and Fazenda Serrador settlements, photographic records, association meetings participation and semi-structured interviews with audio recording. The rural settlements in Francisco Sá constitute territories composed of different land access modalities and several social reproductions. In this sense, the land structure change requires a reorganization of the agrarian reform policy, with specific measures to support settlements via public policies and technological investments, establishing productive and social infrastructure.