The need to fast-track the regularização of smallholder titles motivated the Terra Legal programme, which sent teams of surveyors to selected municipalities to accelerate the process for landholdings established prior to 2004. The initial goal was to review and certify 300,000 smallholdings in 463 municipalities; however, the programme collected data on only 117,000 landholdings and […]
On May 16, Natalha Theofilo rushed her 1-year-old son to the public hospital on the Trans-Amazonian Highway in the Brazilian state of Pará. Erasmo Alves Theofilo, her husband, waited outside in his wheelchair, accompanied by his father and two neighbors. It was the first time in months that the family had left their home since […]
Faced with multiple challenges Brazil s landless workers movement (MST) has adopted new political lines and more occupations to fight the current crisis are now planned.
Faced with multiple challenges Brazil s landless workers movement (MST) has adopted new political lines and more occupations to fight the current crisis are now planned.