Associação de Trabalhadores Rurais Nova Esperança e estratégias da reorganização coletiva

Abstract

The Territory of Mato Grande is characterized as a low dynamic region. While concentrating a large number of projects of agrarian reform settlements, the levels of development achieved by them were not sufficient to establish a new dynamic. In addition, the representative organizations of this segment are generally fragile and many have great difficulty accessing public policy. However, amidst this scenario, the New Hope Association, located in the settlement Rosario in Ceará Mirim, has excelled in the territory by being able to access a set of public policies, especially those aimed at marketing with developments in various aspects of reproduction of the families involved. In this sense, the objective of this research was to analyze the factors which made this association develop its agency capacity particularly as regards access to public policies. From the reconstruction of the trajectory of this association the research seeks to highlight the links that are established between the internal conditions of the organization and the broader political context, building a network capable of supporting different projects. We seek to show how the strategies of action of this association allowed a restructuring in their collective organization. The research demonstrates the important role played by an association of groups that has the capacity to establish networks of cooperation at various levels of the organization. This type of agency translates the efforts of association groups for structuring scenarios that may reconfigure the performance of these segments in rural areas, as constant participation in New Hope in projects for agricultural production in the settlements.