FENCING AND INFRASTRUCTURE CONDITIONS OF AGRARIAN SETTLEMENTS: THE CASE OF THE IRMÃ ADELAIDE SETTLEMENT IN MIRACEMA DO TOCANTINS

Abstract

The objective of the text is to analyze the fencing and the conditions of housing, water, health and transportation infrastructure in the agrarian settlement of Irmã Adelaide in Miracema do Tocantins. The time frame of analysis is from the 2000s, when the expropriation of the Boa Nova Farm, with an area of 4,766.2740 ha and approximately 106 families in the settlement, was already underway.  The article is the result of theoretical and empirical research of a master's thesis. The methodology applied for the elaboration of the text, at first, was based on a bibliographic review on the topic under debate and, secondly, on an empirical research through fieldwork with the application of interviews. Agrarian settlements are created from public policies due to the need to apply agrarian reform to meet the social and economic demands of rural workers. The agrarian reform policy in practice creates agrarian settlement projects from the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA). However, during the empirical research it was found that the physical and social infrastructure conditions are precarious and do not meet the social demands of the settlers in their fullness.