Reforma agrária e o mercado de terras. Uma análise do Rio de Janeiro entre 2003 e 2010

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to analyze the dynamics of the land market and the soil policies applied to the state of Rio de Janeiro in the period between 2003-2010. Understanding the process of formation of land policies, considering the historical characteristics that transformed the agrarian space of Rio de Janeiro and comparing the proposals of land credit and agrarian reform by the social function of the land. It was made a historical reconstruction considering the factors that possibly influenced the process of elaboration of public policies related to land. As well, the regional particularities of the State were also considered, with regard to the historical process and the agrarian structure of Rio de Janeiro. It is concluded that the land policy in the Lula government represented the institutionalization of the land policy of the former government, modifying only the way of coping with social movements. With regard to the state of Rio de Janeiro, the main factors that altered the characteristic of the agrarian structure were urbanization, metropolization, deruralization and industrialization, which sometimes stimulated speculative factors. As for the proposals for agrarian reform, the land credit did not overlap the disappropriationist policy. However, this program has not registered any other disappropriation after 2007, which indicates a stoping of this policy.