The politics of agricultural cooperativism in Brazil: A case study of the landless rural worker movement (MST)

Robles, Wilder

doi:10.1016/j.jcom.2019.02.001

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“…Trabalhadores Sem Terra / Landless Workers Movement" [MST] -, registered a presence of 146 cooperatives, in the period from 1985 to 2016. The author (Robles, 2019) showed that regions with more cooperatives were in Brazil's northeast and south. In the State of São Paulo (in the country´s southeast region), there were in this period only 8 established cooperatives, with only 4 working with commercialization.…”

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“…This initiative is especially important, because it manages to sell products in larger quantities. Robles (2019), studying cooperativism within the social movement "Movimento dos…”

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“…The author concluded that the actions of this social movements linked agrarian reform and agricultural cooperativism, to advance political and economic democracy. By the author (Robles, 2019) the it was able to build a transformative cooperative project capable of reducing structural poverty, enhancing political citizenship, and promoting environmental stewardship. According to Robles (2019) despite all these advances, the longterm sustainability of this cooperative project depends significantly on these movements´ ability to overcome structural barriers and, more importantly, obtain long-term support from state and non-state actors.…”

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Why do We Want Trees? Potential for Improvement in Food and Income in Brazilian Rural Settlements

Silva

Sais

Cardoso-Leite

et al. 2021

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The aim of this study was to investigate tree species cultivated and maintained by family farmers in five rural settlements, to understand the motivations for farmers to cultivate them and analyze their potential to provide income and food improvement. We have studied trees distribution in 16 lots and surveyed tree species cultivated by farmers, as well as their functions within the lots. We listed food and medicinal species, and those already commercialized, and the main market channels for their products. The main reason the families cultivate or maintain trees in their lots is for food supply but there are other motivations, related to well-being and cultural issues. Farmers plant trees motivated mainly by direct use (food) and for the possibility of generating income through the sale of tree products. We found 94 tree species, being half of them cultivated for food and medicinal uses. Approximately 45% of these species are commercialized by farmers in different channels. We conclude that trees are important for farming and livelihoods in rural settlements and have potential to be inserted in local productive systems.

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“…This initiative is especially important, because it manages to sell products in larger quantities. Robles (2019), studying cooperativism within the social movement "Movimento dos…”

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“…In general, rural settlements in Brazil result from the tension between the Landless Workers Movement ( Movimento de Trabalhadores Sem Terra , MST) and the federal agrarian reform agency ( Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária ) with a view to the occupation of unproductive land by rural workers, considering the fundamental right of access to land 18 . The subsistence culture, based on the agroforestry system and on preservation of the environment, is a basic premise of this movement and is added to the possibility of direct commercialization of products to the population, without intermediation of large traders, in opposition to the current logic of obtaining exaggerated profits 18 .…”

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Psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic among settled women: A longitudinal study

Oliveira

Almeida

Pauli

et al. 2023

Rev. Latino-Am. Enfermagem

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Objective: to analyze the psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic among Brazilian women from rural settlements. Method: this is a quantitative and longitudinal study conducted with 13 settled women. The data were collected between January 2020 and September 2021 using questionnaires on the perception of the social environment (quality of life, social support, self-efficacy), common mental disorder symptoms and sociodemographic aspects. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, cluster analysis and variance analysis. Results: intersecting vulnerability conditions were identified that possibly intensified the challenges arising from the pandemic. The Quality of Life physical domain fluctuated differently and inversely according to the mental disorder symptoms. As for the psychological domain, at the end of the segment, an increase over time was identified in the entire sample, as the women’s perception was better than before the pandemic. Conclusion: worsening of the participants’ physical health deserves to be highlighted and, probably, it can be related to the difficulty accessing health services in this period as well as to the fear of contamination. Despite this, the participants were emotionally resilient throughout the period, including signs of improvement in terms of psychological aspects, suggesting a possible effect of the community organization of the settlement.

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“…In the past decades they have defended rural reform by occupying unproductive rural land and making it productive. In the past years, with the increased use of pesticides in the agrobusiness production, they h ave focused on the production of organic food as the foundation for their political action and discourse (Robles, 2019). This struggle has also been incorporated by urban social movements, such as MNLM, showing that the movements exchange and support themselves by creating 'networks of mobilization from below' (Appadurai, 2001) -which is also connected to other struggles: gender, racism, and income, among others.…”

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Squatting as tactics for creative resistance and transformation: The experience of a Brazilian housing occupation

Canêdo¹,

Andrade²

2021

RHJ

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This paper aims to discuss the processes of resistance and transformation that take place in squats in Brazil and thus shed a light on potential innovative forms of producing and inhabiting the city that emerge from the articulation between inhabitants, social movements, university, activists, and public sectors in these spaces. This work is anchored in the case of a squat in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, which provides empirical data and engages it in dialogue with the right to the city. The paper proposes to analyze the experience of squatting in Brazil through three different dimensions of potential tactics for transformation: political, urban, and social. It draws from the authors’ years of active engagement with the squat and the accumulated research and teaching experience in the field of informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro. The paper aims to demonstrate that squats can be both seen and used as tactics for transformation which can lead to alternative forms of inhabiting the city that arise from insurgent and collaborative practices.

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The politics of agricultural cooperativism in Brazil: A case study of the landless rural worker movement (MST)

Cited by 12 publications

References 20 publications

Why do We Want Trees? Potential for Improvement in Food and Income in Brazilian Rural Settlements

Why do We Want Trees? Potential for Improvement in Food and Income in Brazilian Rural Settlements

Psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic among settled women: A longitudinal study

Squatting as tactics for creative resistance and transformation: The experience of a Brazilian housing occupation

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