Climate change and rural social movements

Abstract

Climate change has become an important issue on the political agenda of many countries. From the needs of this context, necessary is understand the different allocations in the subject coming from multiple actors in society, trying delimit public actions less excluding. From this bias, this paper aimed to highlight the contentious and combative contours arranged by social movements in the field on climate change. For this, the dialectical contribution was used for the analysis of information obtained through interviews with social movements, data collection in scientific publications, media, lectures and information. Three important social movements were taken as parameters in international and national scales, being: La Via Campesina; Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST); Movement of Peasant Women (MMC). It is concluded that such social agents are important actors in the thematic, with defined and differentiated proposals of the approaches coming from the main global protocols. In this way, the non-conjugation of their indications may lead to marginalization and generate exclusion processes in the formatting of specific agendas on the topic.