Formação socioterritorial dos primeiros assentamentos da reforma agrária no município de Ituiutaba-MG: desafios e perspectivas dos assentados

Abstract

The question of agrarian reform is a relevant theme to understand how the process of territorialization of the Brazilian rural environment takes place. In the case of the small rural producer, settlers of the agrarian reform, the 21st century opened new productive frontiers, enabling and expanding access to land for many families. Through the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA), numerous Rural Settlement Projects were endorsed throughout the country, including the Agrarian Reform Project in the municipality of Ituiutaba-MG, where hundreds of families endowed with intentions settled on the land and began to produce and give it a social function. To do so, they went through the occupation phase, encampments, debates and conflicts until they received the right to the land. Therefore, analyzing this context requires a return to Brazil at the beginning of the 20th century, seeking to understand, even if minimally, how the agrarian question was engendered in Brazil. From this we will be able to understand how the Agrarian Reform process took place in Ituiutaba-MG, who are the subjects, agents and how this process of territorialization of rural space took place. Therefore, this academic work aims to understand the challenges and perspectives of the land reform settlers in the municipality of Ituiutaba-MG, considering the political, social, economic and associative aspects.