The spatialization of large property, impasses to settlement policy and peasant efficiency in Ivinhema-MS

Abstract

The present work intends to discuss the spatialization of the latifundio and the socioenvironmental and political unfolding of this process as well as the class tensions between the latifundio and the peasantry as bearers of conflicting objectives in the field. In order to do so, it is based on the theory of land rent and the social function of the land for the understanding of the constitution of productive latifundia and its characteristics, which presupposes repositioning the use of the term agribusiness. Thus, the objective of the study is to show how land concentration has a devastating effect on society, at the same time that the peasant production unit presents itself as having the capacity to fulfill the social function of the land. The studies that prove this are based on the spatial clipping of the municipality of Ivinhema, located in the southwest of Mato Grosso do Sul. The methodology used consisted of a bibliographical survey in books, periodicals and newspapers on the subjects, data collection in agricultural censuses and production municipal IBGE, information on Ivinhema's agrarian structure with INCRA, and obtaining information through interviews with public servants, capitalist owners and peasants in the municipality. After analyzing the data in the light of the theoretical basis used, the prevalence of the rentier character of the private capitalist property of the land, here characterized as unproductive latifúndio and productive latifundio, in view of the distinctions between both, to which agriculture was confronted peasant, qualitatively opposed to both in view of the productive use of land.