Socio-territorial movements, women and food donation in Brazil: solidarity campaigns as resistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Estudos agrarios criticos e COVID-19: movimentos socioterritoriais e luta pela terra no Brasil.)

In Brazil, during the COViD-19 pandemic, the deepening of the issue of serious food insecurity and violence against women became one of the main impacts enhanced by the stance adopted by the government of Jair Messias Bolsonaro. In view of this, different subjects, organized into socio-territorial movements in the countryside and in the city, carried out resistance actions to mitigate these problems, with solidarity as a nucleating element. This work analyzes the actions of peasant women in food donation campaigns based on the paradigmatic debate, through bibliographic surveys, systematization of quantitative data and interviews. Women are at the center of actions aimed at the campaigns, characterized by the diversity of identities of the participating subjects, with donations of lunch-boxes, baskets, hygiene/cleaning products, etc. Such actions are based on the Paradigm of the Agrarian Question, as they seek to overcome the structural problems of capital and propose socio-territorial changes for a new model of society, based on social justice and the promotion of popular agrarian reform.

Pandemic, MST solidarity actions and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. (Estudos agrarios criticos e COVID-19: movimentos socioterritoriais e luta pela terra no Brasil.)

The Landless Workers' Movement (MST) has participated in several solidarity actions since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, above all, the donations of food produced in land reform territories (settlements) and in land struggle territories (camps). Food donations highlight the importance of agrarian reform for food production, the reduction of social inequalities, the promotion of agroecology and food sovereignty. All these elements are intrinsic to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations. This study highlights the importance of agrarian reform and the contribution of movements to achieve the SDGs, in a context in which the State moves in the opposite direction to what is proposed by the Agenda. The data on solidarity actions were collected on social networks and on the MST website, systematized in a spreadsheet and mapped with the Philcarto software. Results are discussed with the support of bibliographies, UN documents and interviews with MST leaders. The analysis indicate that socio-territorial movements have been building sustainable territories that contribute to the SDGs.