Fome e questão agrária: a experiência do Plantio Solidário - MST na Zona da Mata Mineira

Abstract

This study analyzes Brazil’s socio-territorial formation, the agrarian question, and hunger as an expression of social inequality. The research adopts a theoretical-conceptual approach to understand the contradictions of dependent capitalism and the impacts of the conservative modernization of agriculture, highlighting hunger as a structural phenomenon of the economic system. It discusses the contradiction between the country’s large-scale agricultural commodity production and its high levels of food insecurity, focusing on the Plantio Solidário experience, an initiative of the MST in the Zona da Mata Mineira that promotes agroecological food production and distribution while fostering solidarity and political organization. Using the historical-dialectical materialist method, with bibliographic review and participant observation, the study highlights how popular organizational practices can challenge agribusiness hegemony and contribute to the construction of food sovereignty.