Assentamentos rurais: o sonho da terra conquistada

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to analyze problems of agrarian nature in the state of Ceará to understand the changes or the impact caused by such policies over large land structure and its implications in a new configuration in the rural area of the state. The empirical references comprise settlements created from 1985 to 1997 run by the Federal Government and managed by the National Inslitute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) and those in dry lands of the following municipalities: Canindé, Quixeramobim, Santa Quitéria e Madalena. This article analyse the expropriation and struggle for land, conflicts and expropriations for land, work and form of land use, how settled male and female people are given job opportunities before and after settlements, the forms of land uses and the way they envision how policies should be dane.