Rosário, José Orlando RibeiroMaia Júnior, Ronaldo Moreira2019-11-252019-11-252019-08-19MAIA JÚNIOR, Ronaldo Moreira. Direitos fundamentais e políticas públicas no semiárido: conflitos por terra e água no contexto do perímetro irrigado Santa Cruz do Apodi/RN. 2019. 134f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Direito) - Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2019.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/28008This paper aims to analyze the process of violations of fundamental rights related to the implementation of the Santa Cruz do Apodi Irrigated Perimeter, located in Chapada do Apodi / RN, with emphasis on land and water rights of communities affected by the project. Such rights, considered as integrators of the right to the Property and the Environmentally Balanced Environment, are the center of the conflict between Agribusiness and Family Farming, considering that the implementation of Irrigated Perimeters generates a great social and environmental impact, arising in questions about the process of formulation, execution and public policy evaluation. In thinking about the agrarian question, while disputing the right to land, this debate cannot be disarticulated from the space in which the conflict is inserted, namely: the semiarid. Thus, it is necessary that, in addition to the right to land, the right to water be analyzed, given the context of scarcity and little availability of this natural resource in the Apodi / RN region. The implementation of Irrigated Perimeters, as a space for agro-export production in Chapada do Apodi, brought a series of problems, ranging from aggression to the environment, health, labor rights, as well as other fundamental and social rights. The processes that workers have been through are the result of a historical context of rural restructuring, the expropriation of families to set up perimeters. Considering the Brazilian context of agrarian concentration, rural violence and social inequality, it is essential to take a look at the violations of rights related to the conflict, situated in the Potiguar semiarid. The historical-dialectical method was used to evaluate public policy, as well as the case study as a procedure. The research instruments used were data collection, documentary consultation, workers and peasants' reports, as well as bibliographic consultation focusing on the national and local agrarian context, globalization and agricultural modernization in Chapada do Apodi. It was concluded that the implementation of the Santa Cruz do Apodi Irrigated Perimeter directly violates the fundamental right to land and water of the rural communities of Chapada do Apodi.Acesso AbertoDireitos fundamentaisPerímetros irrigadosPolíticas públicasmasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DIREITO