Abstract

FERREIRA NETO, JOSÉ AMBRÓSIO; APARECIDA DE MOURA, ROSENI; THAI'S COSMO DA SILVA, NATHÁLIA  and  VILLADIEGO ARRIETA, ADA LUZ. Agrarian reform as a driver for regional development. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2017, n.27, pp.409-427. ISSN 1794-2489.  https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.458.

This paper discusses Brazilian agrarian reform as a tool for regional development, by discussing policy ofrural settlements in force, and its importance in processes of interaction with local and regional dynamics, by inquiring into the transformations those projects may bring about in the towns they are working. This work revolves around Polanyi's discussion on the factors of production, land, capital and labor, and Amartya Sen's on freedom as a factor of development. The discussion we undertake here defends agrarian reform as a way to bring opportunities and empowering its beneficiaries as agents. We argue access to land and means of production provides workers with control over their own workforce.

Keywords : Rural settlements; Brazil; agrarian reform; rural and regional development; agrarian reform.

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