A Terra como meio de sobrevivência: o caso da agrovila de Vila Formosa

Abstract

Agrarian Reform in Brazil aims to establish a relationship between man and land use that promotes social justice, progress, the well-being of the rural worker and the economic development of the country. To do so, settlements are set up where previously there were rural properties belonging to a single owner, these being subdivided and distributed to tenant producers and without low-income lands to make them both socially and economically viable, providing families with improvements in their conditions of life and production. The purpose of this Undergraduate Study is to identify if the Agrovila municipal settlement of Vila Formosa located in Dourados - MS has fulfilled its social function of allowing that from the family work, the settlers can extract of activities performed using the lands to sufficient income to guarantee their subsistence. To do so, it was taken as a reference the survey of data made through interviews with the heads of families of each lot about their way of life and income generation. The results show that there are producers who obtain exclusively from activities developed with land use the income necessary to provide for the needs of the family, but this is not the reality of most of the settlers, who seek other means of remuneration that has nothing to do with the lot, culminating still in a high percentage of evasion. Public policies to encourage family farming and meeting household needs, not only about production, but also in the social and family sphere together with the restructuring of the association of producers can contribute to the permanence of families and to the development local level in addition to stimulating the generation of income from activities carried out in the properties.