The Landless Worker’s Movement (2023)
Considered Latin America’s largest social movement, the Landless Worker’s Movement (MST) in Brazil organizes rural workers to occupy unproductive land that land owners have left unoccupied or unused as a way to combat land and social inequality, pressuring the government to carry out agrarian reform and to redistribute the land to small family farmers. It is estimated that around 460,000 families live in encampments and settlements around the country, fighting for their rights to the land and sustainable food production.
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