Disputa territorial, conceitualização e atualidade da Reforma Agrária no Brasil

Abstract

In Brazil, the agrarian question, understood as the agrarian problems resulting from the continued expansion and reproduction of capitalism in the countryside, is inextricably linked to the conflict between different development models vying for territorial control of the country. The first part of this paper provides an analysis of the conceptualization of agrarian reform, based on the work of some of the principle authors who have studied the issue, and the results of implementing agrarian reform policy in Brazil between 1985 and 2010. This is followed by a discussion of the ongoing territorial dispute between agribusiness, represented by the paradigm of Agrarian Capitalism, and the peasantry, represented by the Agrarian Question paradigm.