A look at the structure of land today: a land concentration in Sergipe

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the concentration of land in the state of Sergipe from 2002 to 2012. The survey was based on Dialectical Materialism History method, given its potential contribution to unveil the reality of the phenomena under study. We proceeded with the qualitative and quantitative analysis of data, including their complementarity. Furthermore became an exploratory study, whose order the development and modification of concepts and ideas in order to raise elements for further work. While research procedures we used, on the one hand, the literature review of the literature found, and on the other hand the documentary research on institutional websites dealing with information of the agricultural universe. For such weaved comparisons with the panorama land presented in the Northeast and in Brazil, highlighting the features of the socio-historical formation that focus decisively on the configuration of land in the country concerned. In general, the results show that land concentration is still a strong element in Brazil, the Northeast and Sergipe. Although in the case of the latter in particular, has the particularity of the Alto Sertao region, through the struggle of organized social movements could change this picture.