For this text, it's expose reflections on the dilemmas and contradictions of integrating socioeconomic categories in the state action for the association, a condition for formal recognition and legal representation, however following the precepts of building a us like a celebrant forms of solidarity. Through case study, it's incorporate data from interviews and texts of minutes of one of the associations representing rural settlers in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Then demonstrate some of the...

This paper presents the results of a quantitative research study of indicators of perceptions to assess institutional linkages in rural settlements in the northern regions of Parana and Pontal do Paranapanema (SP), highlighting in particular service users' perceptions of the quality of the services provided by governmental agencies, including technical assistance; social movements; associations; cooperatives; local government; state and federal government agencies; churches; local marketing;...

Family farming in Brazil represents a strategic sector within the agri-food sector in the rural areas while is responsible for producing 70 percent of the food in the world. Furthermore, this system encourages rural people to continue to live in rural areas. For this purpose, the public policies for the promotion of their strengthening and recognition are of paramount importance. The Article 14 of Law 11.947, which was promulgated by the Government of Brazil in 2009, establishes that at...

This paper explores the premise that the social aspects of the Food Acquisition Program (PAA) – that is a dynamic tool for analyzing individual and collective capabilities, in accordance with the approach of Amartya Sen, when evaluating the development – contribute to encouraging men and women in the Sepe Tiaraju Settlement to adopt new measures and practices. Thus, the processes (including perspectives and barriers) experienced by these individuals during the period of implementation of the...

This paper reports a master research that aimed to analyze the patterns of institutional relationships between local officials and communities of agrarian reform settlements in four counties of the State of São Paulo – Apiaí, Iaras, Promissão and Mirante do Paranapanema – particularly with regard to the types of support offered by the first to the economic activities in the settlements. In terms of methodology, we conducted a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research, outlined in the...

The Government of Brazil has provided extensive support to the process of land occupation in the Legal Amazon through subsidized credits for the conversion of forest lands to agropastoral activities. The Federal Government has offered many incentives to the State of Mato Grosso especially for the region of Alta Floresta. However, this process has generated negative environmental externalities causing negative impact on agroecosystems due to the prevalent anthropocentric vision at the time....

Today, buildings and homes constructed in the rural areas for family farming units, mainly in the State of São Paulo, are built from conventional building materials, such as bricks, known as masonry. However, this study highlights the significance of traditional knowledge of these small farmers, which was combined and enhanced with new technologies, as well as traditional building techniques that deal with the aspects of Brazilian cultural history, through the use of local, natural and...

Women continue to enter the workforce working outside the home with double workloads of family care and paid-employment, as they are still primarily responsible for tasks with the home and family environment, including housework and childrearing. This paper examines the gender division of labor within households, the roles that are assigned to women including responsibilities in the home, backyards, and in the plots of land, highlighting that the statistics data underestimate female...

The purpose of this study is to discuss the recurring process of capital accumulation and the question of land expropriation as a strategy for expanding reproduction of the capitalist system, based on the condition that this system deals with two types of enclosure, both old and new, in order to continue the process of reproduction. This study is grounded on an exploratory research project and using the method of dialectical materialism with reference to the works of Marx, Harvey, Angellis,...

This study aims to examine the territorial and spatial restructuring process of sugarcane agribusiness including the ethanol processing activities in the spatial dynamics of rural agrarian reform settlements through the logic of land subordination by leasing processes and the subordination of labor through wages strategies that can help reduce absenteeism in rural areas, under the Decree 77/2004 of the Instituto de Terras do Estado de São Paulo (ITESP), whereas the Horto Bueno de Andrada in...

This article aims to analyze the relations of work and income that are established between the settled of the agrarian reform PA Horto de Bueno de Andrada – Araraquara/SP and the agro industry of the poultry sector. This relation is through production contracts, which regulate the system integration between parties. It is seen as a web of tensions, since the "partner of the chicken" can be characterized as lease and subordinate to agro industry, therefore against the precepts of the agrarian...