Disencounters and disenchantments of the land social function: impasses to the food sovereignty and the agrarian reform

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to analyze data on Brazilian agriculture within a methodological perspective of Agrarian Geography, where the objective is to identify some repercussions to the agrarian question. In order to do so, we pay attention to the power relations starting from the contradictions of class that define coalitions and irreconcilables interests. The temporal frame is the time of de PT government and the empirical references are the Paraná's state. We conclude that bet in class coalitions with reconciliation of interests, resulted of the punctual improvements for the peasantry, but in strong deepening of the latifundist pact. All was decisive for the elimination of the constitutional principle of the land social function, the first step towards the loss of democracy in Brazil.