Movements Criticize the Slow Pace of Agrarian Reform Under Lula’s Government: “It Is Possible to Do More”

Data from the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra) indicate that Brazil has at least 145,000 landless families living in just over two thousand camps awaiting the long-promised agrarian reform. Under Minister Paulo Teixeira (PT), the Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA) announced plans to settle just over 30,000 of them by 2025, through programs such as Terra da Gente. However, in the years 2023 and 2024 together, les…

During its forty years of existence, the Landless Workers' Movement has restored its dignity to a large part of the Brazilian rural population, according to João Pedro Stédile. The movement now defends a project of "popular" agrarian reform, enshrined in a global transformation of society. But the Lula government is too timid in this matter, due to the breakdown of the state and the influence of (...) Alternatives Sud - extracts / Brazil, Agricu…