Lula announces ‘peaceful’ agrarian reform plan in Brazil
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced a strategy for peaceful agrarian reform.
In a live broadcast, Lula mentioned his directive to the Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture, Paulo Teixeira, to survey all unused lands that can be allocated to agrarian reform.
The aim is to avoid land invasions and conflicts and to settle landless people peacefully.
Incra, the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform, will identify unproductive lands, facilitating discussions regarding their occupation.
Lula emphasized the need for proficiency and coordination, not conflict.
This announcement occurred during Lula’s first live broadcast since he assumed his third term.
In contrast to his predecessor’s informal weekly broadcasts, Lula’s “Conversation with the President” will follow a more professional format, featuring higher production quality and airing on Brazil’s public television network.
The broadcast also noted increased land invasions in the first four months of Lula’s administration and divergence between official and independent data on this issue.
Furthermore, the role of the MST (Landless Rural Workers Movement) was discussed in relation to Lula’s recent trip to China.
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