Avaliação de conflitos e insuficiência das ações do INCRA no processo de implantação de Projetos de Assentamentos de Reforma Agrária no município de Pompeu/MG

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the policy for the implementation of agrarian reform settlements in Brazil through documentary review and observations in four agrarian reform settlements in the municipality of Pompéu-MG. The methodology used was the documentary review, pertinent to the legislation that governs the processes of Settlement Projects (PA) of agrarian reform in Brazil and participant observation in community meetings of the PAs of the municipality. The Agrarian Reform must act to repair centuries of unjust land distribution, which continues to this day, causing a disparity between landlords and landless.The Land Law, created in Brazil empire, resulted in the concentration of land ownership by the elites. In the military regime was created Land Statute, in an attempt to soften the moods of social movements in the countryside and the agrarian elites of the country. The military government began to direct its support to the policy of subsidies to agricultural modernization and to apply strong repression to the social movements, resulting in the conservative modernization. At the same time, INCRA was created, an autarchy of the federal government, responsible for the agrarian reform of the country. The current agrarian reform policy, the fruit of this centralizing and authoritarian government, has its decisions governed by the State and INCRA, and is not controlled by the public that will benefit from it (settlers). The municipality needs high financial contributions from the government to fulfill its responsibilities. Interruption or reduction of resources causes the State to paralyze actions. Thus, the failures in the establishment of settlements reproduce the ideology of support for large estates, combat the ideal of land redistribution, and create a new focus of social conflict in which the landless and settled populations see INCRA, not politics As an obstacle to the implementation of settlement processes.