http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/98/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/51 <blockquote><p>Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement, or in Portuguese Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), is the largest social movement in Latin America with an estimated 1.5 million landless members organized in 23 out 27 states. The MST carries out long-overdue land reform in a country mired by unjust land distribution. In Brazil, 1.6% of the landowners control roughly half (46.8%) of the land on which crops could be grown. Just 3% of the population owns two-thirds of all arable lands.</p></blockquote> <p>The organisation's Portuguese language website is <a href="http://www.mst.org.br/mst/index.html">here</a> and the US-based Friends of the MST can be reached through<span class='read-more'><a href="http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/51"> ... read more &raquo;</a></span></p> http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/51#comment -23.530000 -46.630001 Ch. 7. Soy Industry, Brazil, MST activism Brazil landless peasant movement Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:00:57 -0700 Raj 51 at http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal