A questão agrária hoje e os desafios do governo Lula

Abstract

This paper has the objective to think about the challenges to be faced by Lula´s government to implement an agrarian reform policy able to fulfil the social emancipation potential which represents the land access democratization in the brazilian society context.Aiming to emphasize new faces and elements shown by this problem nowadays, as to a better understanding of its structural traces, this text makes a short historical retrospect about the struggle for the agrarian reform from mid-twentieth century on, and analyses the State actions in favor of this policy developed after 1985.
Finally, after some considerations about Lula´s government first initiatives in this area, four fundamental aspects related to the agrarian question he will have to face are analysed: (a) the peasant production situation in its relation with brazilian economy opening; (b) the precarious conditions of productive and social infra-structure at the settlements; (c) the punctual and emergencial character of agrarian reform actions; (d) keeping a significant part of our country population, and not only of it, in a second-class citizens situation.