A questão agrária no Sul de Minas Gerais: a luta pela terra em Campo do Meio-MG

Abstract

Along decades the discussion about the land issues was around the dissolution or permanency of the peasants around the world. Therefore, researchs and papers has shown new migratory flow towards the countryside and the conversion of food producers in direction of a "peasant" agriculture mode, a way to work the land and its relationship with nature, phenomena calle repeasantment. This paperwork seeks to understand the formation of the peasantment in a settlement of the Landless Worker's Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST), called by the name Quilombo Campo Grande, in the city of Campo do Meio - MG. The research was conceived through a Historical and Geographical analizys of the peasantment formation through the repeasantment process. The current methodology was bibliographical research, secondary data, semistructured quality interviews with land workers and a landless workers. According to the research, three groups have been made part of the repeasantment process ocurred in the settlement Acampamento Quilombo Grande (MST): former land workers from the bankrupted Ariadnópolis sugar plant, coffee culture migratory workers, and city families with agriculture tradition.