Agroecological Land Reform or agribusiness?

brazilian society needs to decide!

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the process called “agroecological transition in Brazil”, relating it to the issues of land reform and the class struggle in society as a whole. We will seek to point out analytical paths to contribute to answer the following question: Which political movement advanced the most in the 2000s in the country: that of the landowning bourgeoisie, with agribusiness, or that of agroecology, carried out by the peasantry, indigenous people, quilombolas and their social movements and organizations? Supported by official data from the State and Federal Government - from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and from the National Institute of Colonization and Land Reform - and by data of the Conflicts in Campo Brasil reports from the Dom Tomás Balduíno Documentation Center of the Pastoral Land Commission, we will demonstrate that the agrarian and agricultural model of agribusiness expanded its hegemony and prevented the realization of the political project of the agroecological transition. Agribusiness, a legacy of the colonial-latifundist-slavery-monoculturist-patriarchal past, which deepens the destruction of nature, perpetuates unequal land ownership and causes serious socio-environmental problems with its chemical-dependent package, continues to dictate the course of Brazilian society.