Territorial policies and inequalities in the rural brazilian

Authors

• Armando Fornazier
• Walter Belik

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17058/redes.v20i2.2356

Keywords:

Rural development. Public policy. Social organization.

Abstract

Inequalities between regions make intervention actions be implemented differently. The Working Group for the Development of the Brazilian Northeast (GTDN) was a milestone of a project to reduce regional disparities. Nevertheless, the loss of state power by crises occasioned by the high debt and the neoliberal ideals have changed the character of the intervention in regional planning. Considering the aggravation of many problems concerning the regional inequality, the military created the National Policy for Regional Development (PNDR) with the aim of reducing regional inequalities and the territorial programs as Territories of Citizenship for rural and low economic dynamics. This article intends to assess how public policies can play in order to reduce disparities between regions and social groups, with emphasis on territorial development program called Territories of Citizenship. The link between social actors and the different spheres of government is the main focus of territorial programs and increasingly the territory becomes a mechanism to define public policy actions, i.e., the territory is not understood only as a geographical space but also as a space of articulation. In addition, this policy seeks to interact the rural and urban, both in the incentives for productive activities as the provision of social benefits, and also constitutional and infrastructure services. The participation is increasingly the part of the speech, however, there is a need for a joint action gathering local and national development projects aiming to reduce regional disparities.