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How Brazil's MST fights for agrarian reform while battling hunger
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April 19, 2023
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12:05Now PlayingHunger skyrocketed in Brazil during the tenure of former president Jair Bolsonaro. 33 million Brazilians, some 15% of the entire country, are now food insecure according to official statistics. As Brazil's poorest were abandoned to deal with the overlapping crises of COVID-19 and inflation, the MST, or Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement, stepped in. With 20 million hectares of reclaimed land under their control across 1,200 municipalities, the MST possessed the necessary base of land and labor to effectively make a difference for millions of Brazilians. TRNN reports from the ground in Brazil to investigate how the largest social movement in the Americas is simultaneously eliminating hunger, seizing land for the tillers, and fighting for agrarian reform.
This story, with the support of the Bertha Foundation, is part of The Real News Network’s Workers of the World series, telling the stories of workers around the globe building collective power and redefining the future of work on their own terms.
Producer: Martin Varese
Videography: Maria Silva
Video editor: Leo Erhardt
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